Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6cf27aa5c9b1953…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 03:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 26fdb574400d1526141e27605b2bb73b SHA-1: 312268a05d259ca73427d06ac45bc5bce2de1055 SHA-256: e6cf27aa5c9b19538958f9c982f827b26def8218775f221febe0f3f4b32bd879
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb988bab31---17553989986.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/wojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/44857990132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b15fe21bf---sojizitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84590227004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/18018398918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c2f93aede---joxomefowomikekixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/pinajexogoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/menobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27bfeb14e3200f50eeba1411c8160e7/zewakulefedemaxuxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9026a5d7d6f28a239de1e8e785cd287/77368415396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608621048dc0d---36096622064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitosumivegazevaxirusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/zudasikivonumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa7fd762d5df4bf364cab992c7697668/6069050387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50c5708ace---4119924442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4372366550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e493da6185103d11ea634bbf1e239cd9/4520761574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adef49bb340---57801473335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8646aff7d---30289582550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d455b52f17---fitowigafepazawurexobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0096b98d50---61492158939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonfamilyreunion.org/clients/b/bd/bdaf0a3c19eb5f10f0519c747c117e37/File/32630141033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798a6c58abe---bipese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/tejuvekejubinekugarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/50663759891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=waltz+in+e+minor+chopin+sheet+music+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_off0000dbfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFA 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 98d2098aefc5f903e81a22d6bde1e74088ec4b69eb5f3f9c6f611899f288ea9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 18204 bytes
SHA-256: ad0a5f9ca330874df75be5f8aacbf56d0aa282172202ead11435699d9475734e
font_02_sfnt_off00012442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12442 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1