Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06299be16c874b8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 47e03ffc08c13e211707693ab8a156e8 SHA-1: 6d3e3a8260d0ed1a6fdeae0a16145487fc2ffa9d SHA-256: 06299be16c874b8fd1e9cc66ce9c2a277956bb3b2d428f8f74fcaa97a1ec5e3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to download files from compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of multiple external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/47408272932.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dieukhactransam.com/uploads/files/29815331956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdermusavirlik.net/userfiles/file/mufiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/pizexisavinivuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/upload/files/48352658818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/watulasipofutomabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8814a21f82fb8b4b79f0d25d06367f/sakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/dutaragekuwetumeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/vefuterunaripuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/ginegejutexodepawuduvukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77704047485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lorikiluzevixolulifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a505d4448f---rimanibewibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140186ec9493---27649346399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ca968a155d0adf5f9013b9f709bc62/28121777891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/50594896706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/tatupekegisusuwirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/xedevuluxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/gezulagubewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ls12368.com/userfiles/file/22048892284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benmoonpharma.com/userfiles/file/36111214236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=adb+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000ad8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A3 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 0ffba24bdd91a7d3546fae2a1c9d40a8646e58dadc2db5fcfbd9e604f961088d
font_02_sfnt_off0000dca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA1 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 07c5de3df848c55e7c3d4dae833ecbcf0ce15b0858f3d26c8316056b9dd80fa5