Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6e6df67df4ce140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0d1804ebbb01b5a6079d6bce82cf3e60 SHA-1: fa412fab55217859ccf050cc400095b1ad38a1c2 SHA-256: e6e6df67df4ce140348a9bbbbfd35d537a8c91988bd0b7365233e8513555bbc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several extracted URLs point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://mazraeir.com/images/upload/files/gakarajewizatoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/22876837144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/dunupebewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/68102205373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/88862378572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/18298878445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/22651850138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70059369397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/levubozufasujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073365457b3d---fipufexukumenibizulexukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51e064418d---54397277578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/74694481000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8a2285568---88693038142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09f9abc5e4---lunofapixomabogodizemutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/24892597385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725c64cf4a7---merurakape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808a4da7555---sikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9n287acsgcn2p2ggh069hriqt/81516861539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40de9a3a383c16c3fa013f12fefa307c/28980932398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/96184360902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/85134556081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=water+for+healthPDF 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_off0000ef6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001077e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077E 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 7f345c89d26099c24f1888d98d7ed88f266913622c757f3b5bbd064bd8c37c46
font_02_sfnt_off00013628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13628 9940 bytes
SHA-256: a169673da5eb0022741ebb4ec583c24ab38a896e88ff0830310de6a6e033999d