Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b151610bba4be9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 12:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4b1860fbf6313374234a321e20133961 SHA-1: 59f847c853026c2433f2a2306c07e4dff8847e1e SHA-256: e6b151610bba4be99fe1b1ca9fec3e64dc3d22414e76ad72bc6027203dc2bd31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on potentially disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767a1aad2b2---9626456894.pdf
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/79115165105.pdf
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/xepugigixefezi.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca571acf04---kuwilozafizetepenikanul.pdf
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/fopazegiwamubun.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d7ba125d7---36106442908.pdf
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021052905362573499.pdf
    • http://amesonsofallen.org/clients/53156/File/6138298710.pdf
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/19905114094.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68922bf3c03d07967c0cb72fcacefa01/fevuvurawevebekepot.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7963cfce7aa53082c24d3208902fe7d/26993897110.pdf
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijirojisamew.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a375b525250---vawarivijodetewuzunalikun.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728e1578d34---gazomovaxixixazikovi.pdf
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/81542959549.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31a2d954f2---34266754920.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736af80f6c7---96788225542.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de9c2b652---1811121304.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/43205246047.pdf
    • https://doctorchina168.com/upload/files/dekapax.pdf
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/82366834746.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7amck377e75t9294tnbhgnq9qm/16108838965.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a089c5126e9---tuperagopososejifepivojum.pdf
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/besidenekemidog.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56mvncmnbfp2c8e8jdnreqs1l4/6935479919.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+10+science+notes+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104fb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d0c.bin
4e8a04f4a78fa3afc58a57d2cac5c2e1f8bf6776ecd71fe0ca93f3ac5299143c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0C 16084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001323d.bin
b68eecdd30c9307ffaf857cc8682320bb102f12881807d5858c4537cfe036b86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323D 10652 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014a8a.bin
3fd05641ad2f6f71085adb570fc1f2c18655b81b4d06cbf36e573deafd5156e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A8A 17972 bytes