Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6964b76fb607e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-14 05:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 836daff088536fa5077e81e62ae9ff5d SHA-1: c418d55b1e9609380d01a1e40eaa99714712488e SHA-256: e6964b76fb607e55fe6fc5e6a8833fcb19cde625ffa4717c628836d360febfae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, with ML and ClamAV classifiers strongly flagging the document. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=moviestarplanet+hack+download PDF link annotation
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7cpsoant2vijon1n4fv8i259u/29754731468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608487b6681bc---guvorizinuvakozevizatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/nezezuzibagetamanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/vatefusigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/43120217126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8pl176g7ohbadsd0rqn04iu15/bolijaxisixakezitoxomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/gizoxegokagidetufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973915d0526---75501217718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd501151cd---fogesaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/30501106634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54f92951fb---68225501305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737db8b4b2c---6070865577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE851 5380 bytes
SHA-256: a021f322fdf271efa8c8228bf8a3a7a6fc2ca3e7d8a8783c3221ff95a6ccb8dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB1 12740 bytes
SHA-256: bdd4c0ddc8090dd244ade5f28ed515b7c5cd890c4579fc88bab2d1b917108d1b
font_02_sfnt_off000122c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C3 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 41feab168805aa873b27601ab5f4ef7c546cb9f9b951a07578bffbc2435eddd9