Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6e9c6fede825316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 03:48:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ebfafd3aff23776ad579e2cc9f44df72 SHA-1: e8d27fa8774efecf21237152d82b949e3cd6152f SHA-256: a6e9c6fede825316c8fcc99d3883c34570095a4c463e0f6aec6c996129dff0d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. These links are likely used for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b321d040d---31906986119.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f3cad9203ccf5a0efdb3e9fc5d58bb0/7444659675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607081d58b3ff---fatiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backyardreleaf.ca/clients/6/6a/6a4eaaf8452764cb6fc14c9064ed0c71/File/90136145664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709024467c1---87137394577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/vofelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77019801318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/kofemukotaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/daxubaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/tivotapotiluzanugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/kuvipibesarozebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee70d601395---pazafexetadosudozijoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/18244750346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/20336516994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/vogimufugezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmo1hq61ouhtj5j1vdm3eo89o2/80117941875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d31800fcf08638c743d50454a8260f/nosazenivuxutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/durizogubitepemadudaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b55bf4c808137ef2d4bc0d10d174ba/xumomowubawixagaxipamobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078865ca886e---gopojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49072414540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/bifipoxelodoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084da4dab8e2---14673500873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=puedo+escribir+los+versos+m%C3%A1s+tristes+esta+noche+figuras+retoricasPDF 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_off0000f6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D4 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 3b885a7349e3a8c07bcd3879fa9208ed57062b1fa16963dde3abdbb80047322e
font_01_sfnt_off000110f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F6 18124 bytes
SHA-256: ea189c79b818b90ffd9872094a949902cae6747e11627742df25cdf264acc1af
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1