Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6ca85f78aa3e098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d7047064e30074e566ca63985f2a1be2 SHA-1: 6d41c3c3aa4c79b74032cbaf6d21af6fe29c1d6d SHA-256: e6ca85f78aa3e0986fa915fed41eff2d463d051e23deea2e8c118dafd1d1753b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests a phishing or redirection attack, potentially leading users to malicious content or further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/49431645911.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/jesovogujaguxetobozejafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebef9b9585---86485400412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/68628966149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210522115613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c31dc56cee---zujarukejonujidore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ae7a5730206d4d358290c80991bc30/47989947854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe634141e38f51ccb50b58d0641d10e/30996593977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46215186215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewerivamasasusavute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/mivibufetoxelatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16090614264050---sujuxuxuzakavadafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutojogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/16315253508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210612192522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/97199940552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1170065973609fa796d0c7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/12774244448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aeefaa7ad6---pexaxoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/gozanitadefowowazebolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/tupatopabeseseruwadexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vig76b12n69r4enqa4972t93l5/48737871030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f83e2b637e3130476289b355cbb8b61/57530454270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/9719412345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bar+chef+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000f39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAF 19092 bytes
SHA-256: 746f940dab2e061ea8d2c29e4e6216ec779bba9e8f19b5bce33350c0028fa2fb
font_02_sfnt_off00013d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D44 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 303549e9f17a2858bb90350d6ffd5a79c423cfed04b8fc3b685d057eb1858170