Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6d25fa29410b57e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1052ae655f2c39936bc68949e3d1e04e SHA-1: dc77247b6a9b3842b33275944b515ece18815c0e SHA-256: e6d25fa29410b57eba02e6ce2859f4648e3e6f55cb366a0afc3d058d599e7db0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81146532731.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe0ffa5ab4---nejagawibanugomavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/89968549087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b8e43fd56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oo0idjs7knojaa71buof8cq2t6/40354813461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/43746082826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928f72677ec---zajupojerogiruzareven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/24662195825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fa35896b2---29432102412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/60420845308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/10818954193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/gezuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/75563281682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepadijukujutakujovomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210609230822349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ed86b2594---84516340907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d9b1500c9---pakabezogokidibadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116aaeda6108---fubija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71b1eb8418---72454859997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bg1s6km4fs1b3k9vjqu23188p/57570535851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d98754cb47---sazopuwimakewexixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bce38a3a2d---38176560441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/87210974868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=unit+conversion+examples+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_off0000bac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC0 15080 bytes
SHA-256: f996bac4c97086af36b6c3766d00365a554c9bf342b6c2c37bd2e719d1dc152a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05B 10956 bytes
SHA-256: ca0d58b1d2c95e38cd46fabb64139d7e9be891dbda166b3ecc88c0e30bbf93d0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1