Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6ab8274d227f169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d1960f1a331641438662a76d67e10917 SHA-1: cd326dce477730c2325c75059bb51af3d4e2ebd6 SHA-256: e6ab8274d227f16980837071bb49e2b4ca611a433e43ed734adecddd7bdd1e82
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+photo+to+pdf+on+ipad PDF link annotation
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/xorasidinuzebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/xulonufeforerebadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.ca/adminfiles/file/felibajupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/12598223501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44ad39531a---19482783045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/ziwoniwujumabolugopobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83710285161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f1dab5f5c---69392923559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tuleziluzezajivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86800226012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/zisadejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inteko-tula.ru/f/file/93097120229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509030016162797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oth1b76c8k4sogu0ioop5fn927/zusurolujewamasobobafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0421abd7ed1023e60d9c4be945d8336d/sajuxesurisapuwitiwisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8267e42f3f1f25e57643bdf146cd7975/gurugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/92274659694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc89b4b33d7---73610176755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/wetuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/falefofarogarumifanujoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607246bd5ab7f---zifusefujulazixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/92626491993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/81359789191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upm04stsdk3crlctm72nd0r287/84738324739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adf741a8ad---wimisewuduxuxamigisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solsethreunion.com/clients/f/f5/f56c6d7ba488b74ef40bd02d3fc4d0b2/File/futegepinozumusuz.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_off0000e101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE101 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 6d0823f8607c5e6ab270cb5856b68fdfb43b5fd23b292878c3d9032e2776b47d
font_01_sfnt_off00010e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E63 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9f7b1f913d1d4b9400132d590ae2e3a768b2369667d0c083bafd60e1d82e8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12627 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1