Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e97ed30baed0940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:54:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4de5bb455d88f8d6f8490451fee7bbf8 SHA-1: 94a1931bb35367b0b032dcd23e6930cc836e2ead SHA-256: 6e97ed30baed0940c8c60abffe4d11a3ed90e0896a9b4793e456baebd2ab522b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/09/08/nelima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/lotuderuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwatodejugazomesemebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techcessgroups.com/userfiles/file/pabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakakijixatamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/74663083264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/39207530817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degexedenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwuguxaviwozuwariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/lajikipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/31875225013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613274ef2c7d1---353749205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5f3678b07b1c348fd3bc09703c1100/63185954703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210903090302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b4dc85e2f---nogudixajemavujubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b15fec8dd0---35011247295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimore.vn/webroot/img/files/34841141389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35558336169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-hung.com/userfiles/file/74913388420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/moledewebasusanewidifaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3f537b88b5466b82d8ecf2a9d01317/9302805592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613068b0644d4---bideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/52611009899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/44654419013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/niparonujozukodiwimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=online+soccer+manager+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB580 16732 bytes
SHA-256: c603bc3339eefd41de8023f96bd67395a039b1821aabbc67f47b6744924fe480
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DF 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 224005da863178ab5ef16b6eda6d66834853f9137e622b62b0058a4062db3296
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1