Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9c6f00801fa079c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f9270b0d7e6bf54c2ea49e2c9425430e SHA-1: 9a9b84df3c4164be2ce60ec4175d89ae0f79f8b7 SHA-256: e9c6f00801fa079cea8f1e7a335e9bfa9323b692ff2f86b2876f4761c0bcd83f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as landing pages for malicious content or further exploitation. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an effort to obscure the true destination and potentially track campaign effectiveness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduce+about+yourself+in+interview+example
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7fa8d77e0---sapomuzagavabag.pdf
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/nuwekofupumizatepobi.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867ae8d1315---90462769044.pdf
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/masalakisoridutabozapefom.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gapepuk.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d7l8jcfatl6avk73kc270av2/tuvududejiwafexusigajun.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53bcedbc875124268f8e1b1d5b39c0d/88374608974.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/lunegukenudedelenuk.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f05d088b979e0140a66d98c0ccaf4fa/lakefifisake.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjsvsjbhc2p18rguomfku9mr6e/soxazimego.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089308018672---goporigar.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68bb81e2f7763da7e9cf59f3bdaef0d5/foxojozotutesen.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/bisolim.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0406a49944---86448214785.pdf
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/69987769523.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cb4daa043---kalososutimagofo.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnql8k8dqp6rt97n95srvn390o/44269576505.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0f25a6dc9---54541830437.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/86863504772.pdf
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/rifefodivureradufadusax.pdf
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7eb69ebf1c---zezamibiferezirep.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb3c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011353.bin
0b7ecdff5247eb68e3ee47876869d0ed96569245afdcc037ce60c979f251f7cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11353 11340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd4.bin
6049d6c39a958674725e2195c4af65c65cdd37d9e8b65b0233fb3458c27576c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD4 16924 bytes