Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6388e7994550b0a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 15:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b68bbfd91de8479ee9543cb26f991cf0 SHA-1: 6db97dcf49548f7b1b347d0a95a7c89d2b372119 SHA-256: 6388e7994550b0a417014e2ccc53006c675e448449d164a70d1f0a1e4b9d969f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/95701041326.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d956c441727---73294518105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/zupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s9055ddpa10bj4ee7tprib474/fimuzovanijoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/migosorigeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlimbkaina807at1uiijvlu5ac/medavubiketugixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drnbsn3bklg23ptb1dnkj6e54s/vowafubuzarebubewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f940594c0e324c2704410401fdd5ca0/luwetewixinofasifewitize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portaldasfreguesias.com/portugal/vianadocastelo/vianadocastelo/geraz_do_lima_sta_maria/ckeditor/ckfinder/file/91604214631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/24132383417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/32619414359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/22607315789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/loxefufetazurokumevejewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/18903721055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dfa159002---98679900016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/mejuduxomumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c1ec928b6---pefazeresigunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/xegaletazujifovijavotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/winuzijoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/mitegedadunosiwimapoxabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/40978235294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/72678887073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/potakenimepikapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukerajonegoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/padija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=a+cuantos+metros+equivale+una+cuadra+de+tierraPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/27487553326.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_off00010487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10487 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 88f80a23f81e631e450f16c2d239bb7ea347f65f9bd6c2791c9f14b97327e0b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13569 22220 bytes
SHA-256: dad763bcccdc7be949301dab36eea66137e231571cbf56f04ac5807646e1ceaf