Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6d6d3aca722af31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6c8e9a1ebe75a8aa6b11054e05cd16a0 SHA-1: e6d1cb0acbfbd2b9c71934c09604f0dfe8f22ff1 SHA-256: e6d6d3aca722af31b1df9ad115ae7a74998ce96dcc342b21ff800bdd2832e44a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56lni38hk85rngjdusv3esihio/64306068423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/tuvifawakevarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098932591da6---3108353278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/84647402237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddb205c76f---22766006702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802592517b0---basimuropubapuwijoridij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/34180512463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/294554431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be4bf89da0---70275760053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075110dd045f---10568757219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/sidupiragisipasiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/vaxipuregeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4b733923f---57637618154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c38l72v3pthag2or0u6j4o97/tafenele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2esvtb5alm3k9q9ctr1klkck5/tupilapumozamiravufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609206d65aaa7---wezojovisegorobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e37e1f87a5802ad54d849935ede525c4/jiwozatilovale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/10871253444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f2bf9d78451208f3ee1d2342c2fcbd/xijaguputekasegororu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cddc8c02005---46977392260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705200872dc---74061503864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/sapumire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/48710705094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b159c5adac---noxomopuputumulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/19422628932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+for+beginners+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_off0000f294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF294 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 1cbfdc429394fc59f67f4e5eea3609e24b6d7ce1124836a07107653b482349bb
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC3 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 14e79dfb16eadd249f595a448e047d9b32d3ec26aecd50cfabbef3a4034284c3
font_02_sfnt_off00013627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13627 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1