Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6cee42fa3fb125a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b83407c89968ca62a191e6467e8677d6 SHA-1: d4b7b43eef2af795d577d1e8d8a59b2d2abdb56f SHA-256: e6cee42fa3fb125a70fed60384f3d2cbb244d2264c440e3216809558bca4e2c1
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 WordPress sites and identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/79565711505.pdf
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0371f1021b1f64896525ac76861487/23513188541.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/51836901552.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ab297e3d0---pawuvajurasurejafig.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607879dc33df1---68067012393.pdf
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/32174717351.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e05b116d1---xujifusubu.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1bb8b6958af8161e477fc9305530b8/zoligetogapusegi.pdf
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/mupiguwufuzolotipigigal.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22b68741ee---85458324649.pdf
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/dadobawewinezi.pdf
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9af680856332ce469a9bc2bcde1093e/pulezigivasibu.pdf
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixegokizejidumevugajasin.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c770bdba582---sunojirixomovuko.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffe5442a30---mujavuraf.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jftld5kd98q44potc5vf8te1o5/56831087909.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19lmhg9jj3l1rq3ph2lkr62ch1/rorazop.pdf
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/fimijizopuluruk.pdf
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/wuveluwobelufak.pdf
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/56457041974.pdf
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/telole.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acdcb263a43d2be67cf9cf9ae222f3de/80427511100.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd493cbb6b4---gokojiraxefizuva.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae63f9f3923c8d9b825b3cbadce0c06/sedut.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=skyrim+se+legacy+of+the+dragonborn+patches
    • 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_off000151fd.bin
b2bb44fc01c632ee760a126a338e4f1e7f779e7841100d67873e257943303b40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151FD 17416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017ff2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FF2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019809.bin
c99800e5b10dc30a8242a7a0456d0288fa3b61f79cb035a4dd0fa34363b8f588
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19809 11488 bytes