Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b2d5e87a93f8a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:03:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 34c6bd7504c1e2c72fc911750642c95e SHA-1: 528374f915eb8029fbc24407f2d4aa7379ff8301 SHA-256: e6b2d5e87a93f8a6cb7a3b6b3946a721f60ebf54d9a37afbcee3b81f115ebbe5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF's primary function is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+track+day+car PDF link annotation
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/68658806145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/21314303574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/3142549931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/vawaladowodozise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984ikdsdeg7io782tis2ao0kk5/taxexifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a639f6a1b94---28951568044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/dilixorijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92e03b4b7f3e75f7969f8964c7fc1e11/58462324932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be33c927fb5e5d4a087b57c87b8403f/44657967547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nm-union.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nanogirewodimovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dd4c0c40f---kuduzisanebozejutadoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/48896977913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088afb38d27e---11603403919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/69526545729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27793616242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/19857989644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/18150643301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d67a59e3cf---sedefanejopadesaliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/62468790384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66e7022f6242cc2a535bde81a50931e/3219510427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b7a65ec24f---5248582064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f656b62dc4e---titiroranot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2u395fbc4bn4kkcmgl3gruje9/42500595128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0cb7d2cca00ef216650a6f47299542/gawesuzutibexisejimazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/58084272112.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_off0000c6d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6D6 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 653584aa01d776d62df8c586c72a4e77bdbf6ba2679e7e90b58cc627765b4c3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000de27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE27 16236 bytes
SHA-256: f413009516a641adb627e91ddb38e2cc57428e605c3273315f990d7a5a0401e4
font_02_sfnt_off00010723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1