Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6095dc7c58bedd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 08:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9f747e3d00221b818701aa2bf470c41b SHA-1: 065000b2e7c42c91bba0bfddd773de1c2f1cb226 SHA-256: e6095dc7c58bedd1c5806850fc09a8434fe8a54b71cc9567852d792f566de899
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the hosting indicate a deliberate effort to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/votugupis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021070511135539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd61ffa5893---18692434448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bce90f59b5cdb54fdbc34e49f047d4/gafepubafozukirakoxalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bbb6b384f---81934172010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094308d0c3c9---gizudewomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05c8e96348---zejamitikiminidakakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/94990413311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34000993886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/gidaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df87577d400c3e3dfa099528bc0521f0/sakavudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsducthang.pgdbactuliem.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55560554091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/34302718068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16858372e7---gonofalewaduxavakojebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b960e5125fa---26447510422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaa80338b1---32200661172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/081451073498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowndes85.com/clients/d/d3/d39312ffd46aa2fbcc4e4de04d96a17f/File/xeluditakazabeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d00a2e3ff9---83227070642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a387c460272---kalixejogusamosoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/zelupetexuvijovazemareme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/xuwowepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607daffe8e012---94991935585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a635a9250b05ddb11dfce4fe56c9459/61047242535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=line+intersection+theoremPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11312 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 9931902237cfc1df940940dc5f375de279ea257d4c439ad4845ccf9d23ed38db
font_02_sfnt_off0001438e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1438E 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 59c3d3ca41b9953d03dbd401e9ca2c84aec7429bc9af9d4dc9151ef7b116884c
font_03_sfnt_off00015a5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A5E 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7