Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6fda01a4f391852…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 03:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 483ec95f904011ddb425f2f830aef430 SHA-1: 4987a3ece143202a6dd42da42733ab68a687221c SHA-256: e6fda01a4f391852cf2d4d23ffdc4282dad9e877a33366a2e0c6ee8793afff1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/93009439093.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exantusfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/96/968554593547eb574606130639276270/File/jipovuwibonuladeloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c12c6c46e222c9dd84e9b5b6a9a1391/tofazijevenoxomupugilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqa2lq53cpsqjd54ff9fg18ps4/sokojibisadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607914a58e34a---21756980258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722aa723e6---24797117202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7a7d9kcq3bs8jqcjdol1cjks6/87101981746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcb7cf21a9---79710376466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/buposemirisupusuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/52492367732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/vawojazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/47605712981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7843631953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e05066b27---6076729939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/61216627530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///kavitawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084809bdf724---pimewewikidozidojewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/ritifakarosewizutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609258deb0d12---nuziwagiputezonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/gemakulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608610dc84aaf---xupesanenubozavujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/99114771827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28449004747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/rinigowupiwiwaxexibosuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baeed3a16ad076b4270111ad263d59b4/11979642990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=senior+business+analyst+interview+questions+and+answers+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_off00011c06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C06 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 4cdb013874904498ccb4274c9586a192fa5d26f33364dfebd890142921459bd6
font_01_sfnt_off00013613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13613 17636 bytes
SHA-256: f7a5a83c456ad326854a6e6db04db666e977a07965bece2432a2b311bbde69cb
font_02_sfnt_off0001648f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1648F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1