Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6a649e9edc1542b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 04:10:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 28aa4386cf0dd9fa8a908531922f7557 SHA-1: 101060df86c0f2cf3a2058f6da7292c36a2277ef SHA-256: e6a649e9edc1542b7f03eb7fd2da9ceaf6bf6e7f96bdd3d8b6000a4a635d5998
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of 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 explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious payloads or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02937d7084---6566225147.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210727_fcb35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf20529606c1f6a4e4ec83907368bd2/73995111122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04187d62348c9c65c80e6ee02711b0d0/gotojezevaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/ratuporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skylineidaho69.com/clients/c/c7/c7306e0a9cc1d421caefa9c307ca601f/File/78027590162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4770693623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebca835568---87171089402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58f7cb743e---80821926167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inh7j9o8gllfn46g6tq7aad5qj/galatufepovejipujiwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/tusavajelelomumodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ecf353eab---92636752335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41cfee2b713863142c69f61ef966447/77906055831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/030622216598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6a3b101dbdb1ab70a3abc6dfaf9033/kubetinatame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7e502kjje3v4d5s556a1bfj3v/mifavavoperevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03101026507957da51782afd882d6ce3/gusajujurimisurixubutage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igbolj2gm8kf79jem5okdnh855/wituroxajeviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/38147136116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9dd471ff77502e00ebd05e7d4b75a9/423265037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae32228605---99816243226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/wusonusolirawexunezawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mrcrayfish+furniture+mod+1.7+10+crafting+recipesPDF 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_off000102f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0F 11520 bytes
SHA-256: 4a4b3cc989031ae23f2a57c2a717021685663ce1e6a610faed6431b8ab5af1f6
font_02_sfnt_off0001361b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1361B 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 406deaac81e18721ca313863ea812957cd1869dc060a255cbcd77f2d878d87f2
font_03_sfnt_off000164de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164DE 16064 bytes
SHA-256: a013ce2342554bbd70a9f85285a6053b67e9b25eaba0dd22223cc179b1b1ea16