Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6dc290415732f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 12:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3c8ba9c55bdf9eb86d15f06606fbb47f SHA-1: ce0371dee55351bce62319017027055c51d8734d SHA-256: e6dc290415732f4e214eb4f2af1b7a9122c3292ef6a39944b3df98b67beb3aed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards a phishing or malicious content delivery mechanism, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac75e056607---vuxukarigagaxofirezoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///14304825057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l61b0gl64de2rrgvl2pl8u18q0/47644876097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35c651cbaa3a0b285d29ad22e0ce64e/nudiwobifenurobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1dc88f3c37---52524109276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul3kjc8nmnrts1d76hrjfmnmsb/36102963004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/79579553053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86e3b665de---guxurelaxaligepexeteme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0cbfb09aa---nivotogafibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a04c0de98---rurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210705085615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a7cca1173---12119340997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/sigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f73575a78---7436340793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3aeb5d6ec80d7a5ff26dfc1321cfb5/66414643742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afpjnesf5ehfpilbuqo6jfe8vs/zonedorowerenamimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc1c597ba4---85849322348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/62092476231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cdbb72d44---zunekulebexetijafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91690798401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/vofiwekofozedobexedami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e35bbc20---murupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/75491767690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/bifukotabekeropixupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=bol+do+na+zara+mp3+song+download+pagalworld+190kbpsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA1 17200 bytes
SHA-256: dd72d6ff873cf5743af3782b41566d2c87da4f0c0271fd81ff8dc6f35f27853a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF846 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 5e656acdbd95b180cda8df716d2351f2a82527e5abc1bc18482f6f04b66a6fac
font_02_sfnt_off000112b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC0 1732 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3c947262022625ef2d4cfb2d0fa10a94f23c97611fd4c7364bfcc62a76ce6a