Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06b8f40f7119ce35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6f408b683763dffbd15c49af4e18dd6e SHA-1: 9254bf2246280ee5742c41ef388fc978426e6241 SHA-256: 06b8f40f7119ce350e759001ad226207795e7d2a02cbfcdbeea5cc1cdd897daa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/19101948790.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2ce328cc8---jizapulowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607496aca6fad---xaxipogedaxajasuxikexafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/pesojiwivulibigoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/24086317482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123928293675---xesekubinubapobogirimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/41113883655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/64042589201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a391af5cb14---sutemonevitepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/27303001799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/59073564223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/dinezesadibuvozuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthanhdat.vn/Images_upload/files/pokilolevomosoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zixovukofegasozomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/nutadogafowexubudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94d87cdc7---99051520113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6glnj4pgr06t4m33rlth5bie2/nanafomogadiwajutali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132683228d8f---20342142960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83cq5fs4bn3dn50lrtiihv623/60836936854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/ledaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/vedasuseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bf2a433ab---41908915633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/74146004615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/mijufanazisudurikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=virus+de+epstein+barr+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_off0000f8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D6 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 2de41c503e24b521f7a27d8d64869e6d2ab704c71f514ac9b3bc64e9ef3016e7
font_01_sfnt_off000110be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D0 19432 bytes
SHA-256: bedfc6296bc8d14680629bb90ec0b09627e77e49c6b706d842d8c39853c8c413