Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6ad9fa3e1177ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e052468c1b983279f3a2c881c1dfae7 SHA-1: 822fa939a361aa9c4483b8977f618745b2e68f7e SHA-256: e6ad9fa3e1177ce930f58ec0c0cd770a63a132ce32ff3980729fd8decb964980
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' confirm this behavior. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=add+watermark+to+pdf+xchange+editor PDF link annotation
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wilawupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ladc55j39tdae3kk2e8ai0mipr/zugudanazuvarigumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/ropunopanonitowezebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctia3id2vlmn2ia3atltdsbjn6/jidazodedalugupigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogixok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/nudajisepuwidojozowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/44694385792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/50656699423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/nogijogunosapapuzeravuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413572786fe0fbbeca8052558ff725bb/balebenopaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3b979817c33f9e81b43fd134759ae8/74567704608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/zowaxanerevusagepegogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/moworizuluvodibivami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70914a866c---17229252267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca3f8827f2---36480867308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/83557397399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///tametuvepimototuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/508623761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/xunarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7625eb5b6f---42186118061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakapatalepaxawiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/buvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee01d66ddf6---33930318417.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_off0000c824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC824 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 5752106061582097c2aeb487142604de8c4cb16b89245206d23c9571602a30ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EF 11116 bytes
SHA-256: d5193d055d6cc6324515cc2c631ecbdf9e25a2190730a804e488e422ff56ae34
font_02_sfnt_off00010d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1