Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6f21da15e730327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d2e767a7f1cdd004437fcd2d212fb391 SHA-1: e265ac76610a2c1476dcf552d4f8c3fa7a75d4c0 SHA-256: e6f21da15e7303275ab033b56001a56f90d319ac5527fa475fa9f54a0f6a7d95
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to manipulate search results or phish users. The presence of embedded JavaScript further suggests malicious intent, likely to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/vatagenejepidubepufip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c11e0f7223f29cedba1e411ae57011/87594968453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/vurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b01f5e0bb06e636d23503a72ad3a4d/81734830847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62300ec90f---62441132914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/78837491165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/fivevupulutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eea1517b2e---wudojolenujudokofalajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/dirufubono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4gkd1221vl9eip59f9p6irmtm/japelulolodetujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/88334438573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de3cd1aa41---xatisobamufavefanigere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/20078255309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/31713083632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2312d76d744c605a77fec71c049f2ba/weginebukifenoxojujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26357515234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbmhavacilik.com/userfiles/file/lajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a034e170309---4734428878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb7ee82b76490e71d0845ecf11106f3/30008113973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9d706d2d0---34083004178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/244771947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfdfcebad8aa59a1d4d6aa47a5e5487/94869405689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+writing+marking+scheme+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_off0000c523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC523 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4b9d040092447873bccc3be3ec44df20d20df035e1a67416760323a99f895a
font_01_sfnt_off0000de98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE98 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2425eb2d5e53e844942bffb38b64a5c582a8f1820812c2b1ef0833cb822256
font_02_sfnt_off000109d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1