Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6e272cc6f16ed79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:24:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ace8e41429a8447d303cde357306a26f SHA-1: eac641ebe30fcf901d667181f0179b04dd6b0e48 SHA-256: b6e272cc6f16ed795a62f8d17ce4e077dfb554996a7ef2ee5ba80190cb6bda6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious PDF files. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to facilitate the download of further malicious content, likely through a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611dcd7c09ad2---suxemege.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86852352776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/katimulojuvirafizilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f26c23995---99724479066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld4go9vcir59mmdq47t8j6ddv6/birevuvepogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqtri74fhu7kemeg3q7lqvq8h2/80841390715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdqrnqmtk92tvks1i0hj2kqruh/7922435454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6f3f8c96c---putawurosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924a035734d---vewixuromupusila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2fb9a3b70246fe553fe88f38b855e9/3420027706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c190e5ef677732ff4156037eb63aed2/88187660340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/wekagajolurivowexamakafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725d005a31a---94879797825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dfc34dbb8---xajoruzinezirawojomulutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/70575916436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f14b6e054a6---9538721121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/92566933793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/wodefomejejomunaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/lewexuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/34125588319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/fikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/gulufugekelilamavonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/60307992541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a796b2a9795---xitezejadovivudisujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921748647f0---55989277772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=download+from+this+moment+by+celine+dion+audio+mp3PDF 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_off0000e2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CF 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 929b820df1eeaa570f1de0717bafbfcbfc868520d92edfa3917ac1ede81ed23d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAD 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 52a7799bcfad2894d0aab925ed566c57246da343148b03c6f2946bf26a4373a8
font_02_sfnt_off00012a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1