Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6e37cefa5b5bcaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:36:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ba57bff73e97fafc6ab3458ea499b579 SHA-1: 5204f996415959e841ddadddcac6da5480b7e57e SHA-256: e6e37cefa5b5bcafc9740a61c1ffea0412599d4a74db02e277a59d2fec032362
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting and potentially SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=express+disapproval+crossword+clue PDF link annotation
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9151f505cf---nugobanejijejomujanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/pomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/26794764363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7lbdu0vmhu4bbl7qtgv21hhu/87101076843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501121540748264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/517dqnqstp1d7k9au8ord8b9i7/78092190311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b6fc106d6---99858598630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c33d77fd7907412216979965490c5b8/50660098879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19cd333b7f---vamorutojube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210514043019228729e8b9wh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/kamuzogebizenaxifirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/fakuzutenewulanaxiwowabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb160ca2d9---zurezuzipazosutiraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb43d0ec9c6---xidadojiwudigogujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/65077229686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f11b63eff305c88d2c7a2cc569f9d56/fodegolomezigurixojoxoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a398eeecce06ec2915c3a2235ebbf29f/futowimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4oq0kvo19t7nivpvr7l728pot1/kovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjgk56avssohh205cn6k5clrog/gakosugasexidopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/91415682918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e64b82b6afc1adb3307feeccebd278/mojotupofopinumukorelirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/nixusokemoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/38695615455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/48620582208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/zezivifimonepusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsu0pui6tee4i90mhvibd93v0u/tovarufipojuxolifajogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF783 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 1741ddc7bed02d2b460cf26e145cfe07e6f0125ec8b21362de08cfb579dd3806
font_01_sfnt_off0001254a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D61 10640 bytes
SHA-256: d2173c028d71dc875841bff8459e9e06faf53f4abf50307261842666a3fa0a17