Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6c95bb1030bd447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9904710b099a095a0061e51b22b81a1c SHA-1: 861aaf6e0c32eca807a650cd3d5c250b7c423d96 SHA-256: e6c95bb1030bd4479ddb9b27423afc409213e1079cdd15d5441032f27ba61713
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' specifically flags links to compromised CMS uploads. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=science+and+development+of+muscle+hypertrophy+second+edition+pdf
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/vasuva.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a31fe2c890b5d4ad32b43dd9a7fb74/22071435111.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7u139u1kjk3nos07t7hku6qk9/90892126174.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15821ea5b337dd19112429d0efe6c2d2/64930110446.pdf
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/38139116358.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ff3b3c71b---82594709859.pdf
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814260ebf8a---sazodamowakaxipif.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c37fa13b8---71901890673.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b5c9bdd1d---sunodaropenazatav.pdf
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64cfd8f2f2de0a099d9b949431b6139/xadigexorise.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077da83327e9---97918898329.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/nobupive.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf045c8df84---95559527969.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782508ef277---85643607729.pdf
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/tibukogipoxoxagajupopor.pdf
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/21086268273.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c919beb028a---vaxon.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a4a0dc4a120165665ff1e321e690aa/29266807854.pdf
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7l5n22hictf4tslieej1dm1tf/ropugegu.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb565c55f63---gajutojema.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef3480752463d5578121514ba08fe4db/tezupiginagerosudeg.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92fbca11e8---67305140354.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148c0f6bef4c09787d1a7f1da9ec54ae/vakozo.pdf
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/57013125202.pdf
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/40121211331.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd00.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD00 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011512.bin
6c4ed1d0c63cfc3973d3dfdf75fc1cbf6337ce8237dbced17c9d6ac4989c7104
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11512 17164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141bb.bin
3343b5881e33e9e5518cd6af4f87f59f9a503b248289eda8c75b647c51bbfdb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141BB 11240 bytes