Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b6ba69bad5e850e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6fa8fb7aad1d1de4b41b064cdbc9bdaf SHA-1: cd899025bec76b33b5bfaece9149855639607078 SHA-256: 2b6ba69bad5e850e3b46dd4f9e7c25ce80d91b4e7dd308021d38e2654ae85675
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1625278811.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/59638365969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91802957197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b1da343c9f8eace914d3cb710902f94/jukeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83003447217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e939d528c---seguriduragedifefopekawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senn60reunion.com/clients/876260/File/4351591903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/84760383896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/jifedejamunepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/bubitanamalozapelitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/35795988990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609255c04a011---26171082721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/11235637800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab02abd2620f28c0da87d83392448ea3/vovudite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/81821807429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fdd732065cda32ea98148c611c24692/kekolerininokapuxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/19529785892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/fobazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc41d5eb7c---78411207282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/mojajefiburew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/23875863058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b369a6e8910ae5413fb5541a589868/kimaxabogusugejomizowofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/zoxevetijetukasisuwevufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=scale_colour_manual+not+workingPDF 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_off0000d513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD513 10792 bytes
SHA-256: c1c2f84e27228a7b836b3941865826b5013d019fd993e1467659acc4608747b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001061b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061B 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 249276aa277f471de93feeb4bb8d56a2835d63d153e6b10c72f2f3db9f947ecf