Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e8d4a073eab261f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:41:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5f47cd31666ca78c43027357c3ace5dd SHA-1: c30e69c7cd3d81cd0255b24cc9d479128d8fb3f2 SHA-256: 6e8d4a073eab261f491853201979c8af45b2419d047155f56c097e60e177dfcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. The file's structure and numerous external links are consistent with a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/reruxirorojopuxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98cfda02e70385459558172d63d2712/gipizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/173377d08f629c227f73f58c421e89e3/32924724894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0ddfda6d7---xejumexiwivumowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27db809fcb---sufebufaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/sepitudosizewawewozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/51956628289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/vunerudavasolavima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emidq4ugbfr4ctn1or63c7bua8/82112628742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092123885bdf---53032645518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f36072799b4b68d8230e37e54d31546b/25851619924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d29a4347e8---36767833301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/10331502493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39f1c7109a---bupalewokupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083df13042ca---vemufigipetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/271446354359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846d830094b---70738790305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcd270b5cc---68512688271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a832df219a8e4ccb10e0815cf6064763/52020718115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdf593da2a2956ac24a82915f8c9ce1/5320067769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4chvd87o1ghjc9hu5j33glnh80/8546037293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785381ce9a1df5ea8b6413c065f1b343/66159232208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871751cc4269d25d73ce18db5f66caad/41173122247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5cb9a58c5---86281156831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=you+have+failed+the+vibe+checkPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B7 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 69bb7cdbf85305d92f6d522d38ade8361a0bce7c9f22059df6d2d16a0bedd95a
font_01_sfnt_off00010100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10100 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 08a3903a3354c3d5d0710490d8bec2f5a79dc5daf33abffe8a3dcbf0418cf9b3
font_02_sfnt_off00013194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13194 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1