Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e9a74d74e455ee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-30 01:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a75f138d131327784368f4ca72e720a6 SHA-1: 8a1b9d78c797086b13bb79dde83d387a5397f695 SHA-256: 6e9a74d74e455ee6cabcf86ee00b11632fe798263b316598ffecf9c1a925e8e9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI heuristics point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+regulatory+reporting PDF link annotation
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/dezokudotumuluwepikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8975486040aab1ba0aa814ff4276858/garanajitamanijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/pitegutujotikurununulikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2b52b11e4---26133451332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/60685169272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a37b8ffd2f58ce9a193f16e2961e91/22507118494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/likopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cec508cec---53295803179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1de40296b7f03e70457a204787bbd01/takogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081debe365f644e8419df8c95984da61/38252037348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8617ba309---49424450016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/50634896763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/burifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f17c0b0d78---zokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c29ebece91889f506b19107f0946d4/9206017060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67665181d0---getujupebagumimifuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a156635b38e---suxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb7cc09d19261ae0fcd506194fbd55e7/rufalorolupijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a02ad76d9---fidamukojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://127.0.0.1/kardelenemlak/upload/files/41109117896.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752342f414c---75613361625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70c2172c835832975e1c4fc4ae15186/pegisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2475c8d44---tokusasexusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/dajudurodipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/saribuniwunewixusurufigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFA 17260 bytes
SHA-256: cff38c5501ab7da7a4f4ce47466a2e3096a8a4be8b58b0ce5ab1695882cb3c52
font_01_sfnt_off000129e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14200 10688 bytes
SHA-256: f981b4599b5669726d3134e4eabddc605fecbf6d95486cd2e94721c718dbcd3e

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