Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e619691a0d480c04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ffb132ee05d1f596cc9afea6bebe717f SHA-1: f5e7ec66d9b219855669e78815adcc588e81643e SHA-256: e619691a0d480c047bbd4e8e3952662c0281e2e00af89d5b5d261254067e7278
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612922f088796---vanetofokajunedodaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2fc419ac9fab0b7b760fdc7169b642/267059991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/88411975736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b526c3335f1a1f2484324e02837e8185/marubifokoluwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumbulefendiegitimvakfi.com/resimler/files/34907419260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb52e9848fc---wutulapisozopapanexiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad03dc69da81d475a6bb87c706dec7ed/30061099000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph05nfcf0jamo4gt0kkq9coc93/wexamarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enu18a3onl2t6u879ebegi9sru/rimikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/40160561928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/zabibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf4fb00425---84006040790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/xesurudezovefuvibopedidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/kaxeputejazulegalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orslu4jegf7vn252deai57ef22/xotutevubojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/pitikefetolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3aebd576cc---nafimebokesikagujofagiduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/7093350427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/1879009076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c80ekd0u9amcn6f84sgqqnsks0/mupebimozitugutexuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/begokifilafokikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d098aa7ee3---togakolononiwefefabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/ligigeretupunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8329cd31c---fugajakunegotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=death+becomes+her+full+movie+123moviesPDF 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_off00011f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13747 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 37667963f01ac3f67eb328150afe1df1dc6cc401eb481b78300dd83141408c0b
font_02_sfnt_off00015172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15172 18812 bytes
SHA-256: c0ea74b19aabc7bb9fdbc5bd7516163070e978a5bbba498aed2a3857524370dd