Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6fd827c08eaeb4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8d1da43d2842b34c8f45df8434b99225 SHA-1: 325fc55574b4461f027f17be68aa88818f9e6e9f SHA-256: e6fd827c08eaeb4ed0d8be16cb3e208917c2429f0a0417bbcb222485517d3123
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest potential exploitation or redirection mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+online+sms+backup PDF link annotation
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/kikaremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/11259784132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/37495650420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/libamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/91380832149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/japudekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/wuriniradobifobuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/ritalidavegutogeduwonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/30912305675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trumoi-khutrung.com/upload/files/21964489407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/20767758547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/70468495463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/24152307063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/26818013394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47370823659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/forijomawarekileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386ace83307---lujiwija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/5038328943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/tasixuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/pozubejumopiwalezoguvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46086923504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908e0d1d9e4851f95ec75bd103036e58/42421303773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8fpv9qsq238v28tge96bcoke3/zulupawavonivumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/nurulezamoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89384194415.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_off0000ebb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB1 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 3386ea389132c5445f322baac5887a2811767c50e819d80fff3a7e01fe3bc6d1
font_01_sfnt_off0001049e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049E 17932 bytes
SHA-256: b5dbcddf8af6061cb215556bd420b3443aa67398e040b9d07306d2db1db3bb45
font_02_sfnt_off000132bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1