Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6df68d518fcf68f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 45f0a5bf0d53a47c32963e57d273258e SHA-1: 9186cdf146aa524f067ae70fa1d982d38cc131cb SHA-256: e6df68d518fcf68f1419a35a86464042d41ee1527fbb113d51b2d2b9780dfe79
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to external websites, including one that uses an IP address literal. Heuristics indicate this PDF is a link farm, with some links hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/63584487278.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/30634376710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17848608846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/xemixubavufomituxakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78de9b30798970eca96f19100872c440/83840388191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/94240268889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/19938432663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135113ae32ae---jesinaxoteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/monojodivumoxexejesemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/wemezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/wotasuzilefezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj5a500j829u80fq9612cf8qj1/nosirazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb0f158e4c---xanaxolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/pitejinifeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/3578788838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmaxi.ru/userfiles/file/99682511916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/vetinekevubavipax.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/kufigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613935501d98d---tebevatilapiluratelanumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/94370802758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31349478054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/tobitisukikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27598133233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31771010184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=unturned+all+crafting+recipesPDF 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_off0000cd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7A 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 57124ba16153789182b81d41a85e30250c06f0b84556590844f0735f4b682dfa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA70 10780 bytes
SHA-256: ed9cd1dd71ed320df05159519032b8719182ae9f4f51dc928e80a296072c6f39
font_02_sfnt_off00011329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11329 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1