Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6f67665db1d256b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a828ada7b6bba5df866f33a6c7058e81 SHA-1: ff0866237f778edb813775556dfd8f95f5565a7a SHA-256: e6f67665db1d256bdea720a4160ad3f321f53d3f642db80abe75b512dd798a92
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of urgency lures, though low-signal on their own, supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2d481fba6---29152158157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db9fa7d203537d95f449eba8e8e04bb/debop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxusezowujiwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b9bd7013b---47081895993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h01kt1fsnoude0k43g3mp3php/52171210378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/48717784770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4496b0c029---reponewazaxilekemuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/85901498016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwazidibofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_40186C763BE9C8B0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/guvejojuliviluxebanafiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/375b6d4590a92db5880dacc66d1d73ec/85986431817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d774985f47---mulurovako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5aacu3l8nvr98io5ggq01920e/45037396900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36132103439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/57429843675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dea90ea91---13933499128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d71c68a92---natarazusijazetunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/82800759860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siddr90mfprv2n27fkenl4rd22/90326882756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/kutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cutting+edge+teacher%27s+book+upper+intermediate+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_off0000e087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE087 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca5773f1ceecd639d4e0edae4c79fa1e9850c16dc515a1c515c003bffff1be8
font_01_sfnt_off0000faec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEC 17364 bytes
SHA-256: e305f50910b5ffa51b7eb64c6127c47bcb28be04304c08aded30a7444e836752
font_02_sfnt_off0001286d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1