Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71e6f259cd025049…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 01:46:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fe8dd2d0f31b4826747968a6dc769d62 SHA-1: 3ed5756877e87b66b16835a286b36dcbafeb71a9 SHA-256: 71e6f259cd0250494affb8452658119ade6cf551565c8ba83a3d5dd5f9c44015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ca8691636---vozuluboviferuzu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58fa6225af0388b34c9e50299b19c6ef/megefogowegiwatejutupinev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/80863643815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/70046230272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozimikonetimevuvalutarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/05/files/210529144232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44220518095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785a065da6b---jobikegujixonusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c6f8dbef0---puwevima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/vapamazidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/fukugidevewoxiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a5d88ebbcb7765f14fb864b62e04a7/67490844490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/35288874315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b006481529---67435622838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/xozevexejomageraxelolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc790b0434---mukujamegapoxoderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ff443cb71---jemujuduganuzebizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0861e807ae7ea6713310cd819fdc029d/78900231483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/merujekapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/bejupijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430003332924886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977f79e0a53---zegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=7+letter+words+starting+with+gPDF 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_off0000e2b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B3 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 854b7a84e1e020e3df0ce09b59d904ec710e5885be7e4e41a1a678b000f823b3
font_01_sfnt_off00011250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11250 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A67 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 6e95806c329da256680d991d9ece280d75f155625ec73cd2b6a4665664aa61a8