Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fe47e15e618efde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d22cad28411ce682464b5b4c7c4e8e11 SHA-1: 9efbc4674c7805bc1071db8ed5e038c108434ed4 SHA-256: 6fe47e15e618efde71a00d1ebed3ef775a0ed8380e9ebaf8c3c49d0bedc32acc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+powerpoint+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/bubuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b741581570089a4588f5b8dbc3434e63/42306878854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0103dd98d---4535526050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c18bf0fc4489408281927f7f1a61343/wekogiwapafefifisineluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj3tdhc4mom2not5lrp7eivl1q/kidutawivulipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kefb6tgpcpj0t1v61rpif6jf40/zejelazedaberowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d051823ce7e8d9c55e5abfd36fe67c/radejejipunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportgalaktik.sk/userfiles/file/29644054176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946c3a0a32b---22649535564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff73fe1834---79793064428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea72b27nogkh31mjko5rpjo91/75118231688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12703906662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/dipomivizivipizuximaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/bepixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8uf73ib57igdpt3i6jhe2pn00/41138294702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rvitlmk8gldqlvqbm9k9lagtp/najusosasexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/51011623740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c2d74a7e4---74064907180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fbe35d55---22547383403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb89907fcb---jemazigizuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/roxokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/mikuvuzejenikopetidawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/84657352038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/wukup.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C4 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 16e89328692c77cc441eb1a7996dace87065b33d17726cdc70ca66ebb4caa270
font_01_sfnt_off00011280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11280 10428 bytes
SHA-256: d01b8ebbfd90ed6e6a3c9d2e522c44129305a7b85bd2d6b9170b6b01d3d63bc4
font_02_sfnt_off00012a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14246 16076 bytes
SHA-256: a671d37c7b3b889284622d243fc9727f378cc914a66da79eb58e164c6b93b0ed