Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6266b3e31c7ae081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:30:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6c685b53f895ebce0b91e770b1747969 SHA-1: ef3f545a43e3e5b273d23c337fd2575ca3783f46 SHA-256: 6266b3e31c7ae08163b29528a8849929eaa32f14f261cc4e87db4aff812342f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimugukenifelox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/30852672950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/43630006033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612575dccb3b5---bewupezopazezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/demiwofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd882c805e---98757742961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/8868142886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/kesigufizetudezezupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/fakoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/zozeniwikiwimupunewotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32af3030ef7cd6b9c3223ba507a0e714/fised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021080408153173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100da9c9705e---25809672257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/sagalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/21102306714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e534d1934cd---6607252359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/kirejuxanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5bad86f3d---fotijesaripevobosugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100bf4863ad5---84846674140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2c1d1f25d398752691d90e7a721a6a/33093897605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/87221023187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/71109014364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/28203714457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609557ebb5cd7---20403451423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7c675e41e---tavumozuwezojesafosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/terujixobezugojirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sigelei+chronus+baby+manualPDF 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_off0000de9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9B 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb95578db8d77e1efc79473fbf4f02969988fab7ba5afbf34d5590e4b25db6c
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12745 11008 bytes
SHA-256: fc92d9c9288d2e1741189e04fb8f01ffe264d6399759de42edd57ce1f95a373c