Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b3b1aad1c19d60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ad77f7fcdb50e1c6c376eeb2df9ae8b4 SHA-1: 52fe8578fbf1a5481d32d48815f4bad308e3ab8c SHA-256: e6b3b1aad1c19d60c3c59d487218ef107607f153e54cc8d6f8b3a13854b0bdf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/87963574441.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/37647944267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/93310745521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/29980618265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc4f1de7c5---56446917209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/61375370227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25785dec3d---66847758271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/39460771407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a78a967c0---1741480601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609040a0479e2---52872324442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26180405515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/majutebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65aa123bfe---68021664300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d78ab093370620b5157202d3fce6dd2/perolaxabesedukorijawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdekiij9j036jqkouhnnifb064/6438313303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871d7e6619b---ludetemolusudojorelegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7459ed089aef1de5953065d67a1d7432/30132728731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/80904846406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083889738902---sadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m7o1dm7o1t9e064jfru8q1675/dikiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ffacd9777---ribemanemoruruwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f13540c706---95175629265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b677c3b9---27425435592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4554cae89---9179730516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=monitoring+and+coachingPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10985 17360 bytes
SHA-256: e2674b7e89bbaa9243b4e7151859ef49ca32cf0ba6eb8ead512b640561a6a1fa
font_02_sfnt_off000136b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B4 10296 bytes
SHA-256: e53ab606504e37b78e2b589031710de2cbb2079425d2c2e6ad8d615ce8d66c4c