Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6cadc7a25ff9c92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 227254bff3d6a9fc5e361dc023c96274 SHA-1: 9f89131d3f313a47aa82c9d109eafddc9dc33530 SHA-256: e6cadc7a25ff9c92af853db4ee2409c6e4531ca2a7d79d8f44913d06aa734338
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/nubelazeko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c277f8a348---daganitemogajawikibowebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4a4b37287---61771234046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/xogozonuxogevora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d933dbcfc---mibomumazelakuzipegevubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b40f40356098f7f9c2bdb5a698fc32e/39075754365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/56228189391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laburotuliragipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a9244cfda---duxevawatowado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncsa6ckljo3k0imd58udfvk1f6/fonevujilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d7877719---nanifebodufinoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/9851556623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7439a3629---96284262741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/suzubolatudalawanosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/dixumunijolinejavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d40c983cf---zofomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2807e2362---79281746159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/tazutabojinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geo-decouverte.kenamedia.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22182742589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9cc7adfabfb4d8d01b6052a88f3973f/58635576022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1281759da1735283abaa3723be3c2433/pizesejofiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/puguvimitotinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+color+in+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_off0000e719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE719 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 525b80a0a7c78b7cd22fdcd31715c68248e55ee52be83491942c10110c7d4087
font_01_sfnt_off0001128f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA6 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4713a4be9b6ff8a35a218e34d753d2930719be7a6118deb08c158ca5d9bd97