Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6db34b1c024dd49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3e98370a7b15bf030cf3654a9c7917a1 SHA-1: a02318a3ca144e92740be30ade6c76c1a3f5e8e1 SHA-256: e6db34b1c024dd495e1db3ce563cb60b4dd62e7d468af9144919822973b5e251
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is obfuscated and contains no readable text, indicating its primary purpose is not informational but rather to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/79027561134.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40658850099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/22294842534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_92E9944F7FBF43F2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c921202b9---41781007009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fa3bf3827---81040134571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17412173d3---13288317379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1a47ee918---dilagekuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sc7r0jj0ee88vj10vu7787adh2/refora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/polipaxidunijofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6r4dnupgdvtubf34k5slruij4/gevugazujesugofalaxipito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5edb64a44a6ff6ca2e0c8e2238d5f7/89005502046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qavnpd347vu0ueum3rrl5dt92/63297143749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e772566374e---zevaxomanulolulibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/tijovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/balalovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7b81d8443---20722804761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/domin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94e8321fb84a2e3d1a9387b26585d75/37943431471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/73928413003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/wuvuxotofefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5006ed6cc---vidilakutitudomine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/50931275125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=clasificacion+de+angle+molar+y+canina+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_off00010659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10659 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E70 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 4da677aba829e173022290244ea3943b225e83f8e3f342c9799121174be1caa7
font_02_sfnt_off000137c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C7 19844 bytes
SHA-256: 8b71bc262f57f0f1e1c6ec91dbb892c52c560dd2bda7450ee94cc985cec5d34d