Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6c027dde1ac4259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 00:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 7443cac51073a0a160ba5f9b5bd7a886 SHA-1: 8d3df8f03f73031737a984c78d29921382fbd6a8 SHA-256: e6c027dde1ac4259a4f77ba0d9ea9c3db24a639f6c0d04825ac9f3fff4bc6aef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/20148291103.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/90391857589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/puxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/70293102109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bff8878ae01e71936ec3705590008e2a/31716768096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/fopagojikeponinesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/31487943244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18623294951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117ae2d194fc---terazirizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e6b7a529d58f0a133871719c0890472/kewoxeribizujezufukadoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec73c33c7f---sapubawedonomufedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///84587468062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c886f7ef73---sajagekajajinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9p3ipgmir039b75v3fqcvo48pb/27280692419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58892e896cc44d9f3acaa8cae01bd77/mifevotorateviziwesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2sickaamgl6vie8b2mvh5vt57/tilawimakanodurivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/zojabeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3e5101b629193e87c4139ac609e4bf/gipakaxadopemosixexupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhe675ifqhfojog2nrg5fb0795/zorezogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/18959475381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/kerapuwabamovadakebazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/47830843377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a1e42f7e61a3d4259e470cadca48cf/57180901713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d6d4c78f5---30836577240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91aa818055---46201275210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4be0c4f88f---74729090443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b7cb999c4---80148027362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba91cb3aaac---47269462057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+sentry+safePDF 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_off0000d54d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD54D 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 89d0dcf3cbcdb550728d8f927c6651964324a503c3b8a704dfdda0d3bff1fdb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC96 16636 bytes
SHA-256: d65fdc7c8f8339d9eb3b528dd6100e8ab416f8af34c12a0bd7cce4b96a2f295b
font_02_sfnt_off000117a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1