Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9e6a7e3ef677a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:42:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8f6710b99fe1add4156ce743e7ae30ce SHA-1: 98077556b018fa753553aa218e2182d4e87d5a7e SHA-256: de9e6a7e3ef677a8847b53699fe10a8e1d616fbfe25cd1a2e7bed44e0a44f604
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+books+for+class+6+solutions PDF link annotation
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff7492901a90b06d1753351de51bf48/89845845655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg1eftt3ofg4kkd774g69amg05/73777784813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhlciegcio5jpjmdrtuat1ska8/47657611606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/80159892369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/wexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b17301900e---48042596414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///13328619713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ff96dc737---wikubofadututipujofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupojofibiwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/fibopijimotoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ee36eae39---juwedejodapewipevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e42fe18d4---2550601516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95p7goqm02ika3ge30bdej6bv7/43060160150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e06038190d4f95ac70526a22a9bc316/48955027935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58bf3803c049aee2a625731824e6636c/fuwazenagezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/valogabaporevuvezemogufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/rotevake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873f3f8273c---12928321007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/dosilenetevokabitonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e4071676e---86496620945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/60331112630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc89066455dc562a20d64c797a37f5c8/xunujujoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/996ad0c4c6ab0a57de3b29982e28e981/63096586370.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_off0000ce51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE51 16480 bytes
SHA-256: fedec6946654d42c01d488ca0906e6a51cf498448cd8fd5544e36dbbee4c7449
font_01_sfnt_off0000f912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF912 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11129 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 60dc0591acae7bc2ccc2940280d60fa2512086f93c55d46ff077ea0378dde4e1

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