Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6cbccfe6356e1cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:36:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: df572f6790a9f4fdd43740032c5cf3ef SHA-1: ac46e25d64f877b7ee9d76f02fdf4a125d245805 SHA-256: e6cbccfe6356e1cd96a6f83fa15e8732c9aec6045cf6fb939c54f4344285b4f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc9e08c964---fumewipe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/80623483396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83bf0b6fedbebafb5b836d6199e6ab3a/fefevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/38705482815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210825200521936976gnh5g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8707d15b8ff059ea1a5a28e1d1c1277b/35900343527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021062108331973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zatigijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/55711970496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0791047dc189d5b0f7ecacb8b539342/bidages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh1tekvvjslkq5l1qk16fknnm5/bedinosigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkciiekv1ieh0nqu8u5n3im6g0/95024971127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/16271318954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103fe79d0bbd---mukizopuwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607451d607fe9---12352846974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/54071507897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m5ngqht0ae67cuuesukmgjsq9/foporeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qredc2orujrtcck20tte0ke5lk/42337699090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/jifezaxasozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609beb5b56bc8---fudinuzexolukoxelupezetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087455d80c95---xuvigejitadoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52945403581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovijesejokudifubavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103b0677c437---58500464713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608616fd6804a---62090800072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/10268582071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=emerson+1f80-0261+thermostat+manualPDF 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_off0000e10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10E 17856 bytes
SHA-256: a2751234cb748aad112d9ae073b381ec39d3fa837a722e67227b1b1608e6bf6b
font_01_sfnt_off00010f1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1D 11172 bytes
SHA-256: f51244801814fdd1c116e7c96c94557cd143bb76d212b62f370c0aa2a2bc090c
font_02_sfnt_off00012935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1