Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e27a1c9429e451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e60d617c58bcbde1bbc46dd9e11954e2 SHA-1: efe1e3182e0cf3be7fb6be58976bad844098677e SHA-256: f6e27a1c9429e45169c9339d5351f0dc36368dc18174338065530bcec325555b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=healthy+places+to+eat PDF link annotation
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxinoxenumodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/kufudirezileves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/wasuxekokivawidujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861456dd74a---21775162501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/41917450701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xikewododonunolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/67416744457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22678173991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/61946609694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967e901c01aefd80b4e94dddfebf44a6/24523206818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada803a0bb5a41c7c60145b4ae86e9f7/52805649898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ee1be7874dc91dc3dd4aef1db07459/xubivupivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/89072557096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icvqselvd01t7fhpocpcjduatb/lutiridel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a0f89e23614336c8ad82e1ee97da14e/dugujexolunoribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc20tgel4n0vo3g8l5p705sttt/vesupudomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3u6lmlsinp5o9vlpbqvnrnh3g/fubusukakazupaxemodeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5o924a1b4m4e4ochpvi9pueg3/mumovebavugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm2lhmq81f091ur3figaidq83c/79994870855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b3a140236---87923856453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82eeed2c40190e25cc8a40639ac89e68/14154372348.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_off0000eb2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2C 16788 bytes
SHA-256: a8945cde55416ed49b2ae5d9d6215e5472c5d4a97bb6764b426f41bfeef02f10
font_01_sfnt_off00011703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11703 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 1c527d927045a9c40103d257be49d385dd3a85bb441098fede0ea91e3ffffe29
font_02_sfnt_off00012e5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1