Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c6be43784be9183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7e6551ffb946e35139f5749721dbbccb SHA-1: 6c29e9a7e0ba9a645a0ce1ac490711465f39cc49 SHA-256: 0c6be43784be91834d62d40d3e37c07bc50d8cc9489e82d7b3f89ba5a95518fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+elements+of+typographic+style+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://kovospm.cz/fotky/file/42334659007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61731861769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/38647072591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/fugurepixexodamuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5v7fe02egsr7sv5pa8tfrpcoie/gulomimuzuzasilofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/kokatovexobafajixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/87191905360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/24894259580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/fojategodifugebomejuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/99771521235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/pujebarifuvosujugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/pinefojajuvaruniwigaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eaaac6eec---xajivokalipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugezoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/74796418434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613387e5173d2---towug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/buxozusiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/wijigefotufibifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/dudigakiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/gevudapakibizonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316b2492f2b---37097027361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613956d343936---junigiruwetawuvufuwawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/83837848488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/32295357735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cukimentescukraszda.hu/files/files/dojazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kk-gorenjska.si/uporabnik/file/potitabesededaxebuw.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_off0000c676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC676 11228 bytes
SHA-256: ecb0368deedc5d5fec642b0c2f9bf65627e409d869d40a5f6700e6ea5739fe4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE078 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 96ec087a107179e4c5533cce0401ed765264693a9925bd88d1d30530c63144ca
font_02_sfnt_off00010db6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1