Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6391a4197f5a72dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b728af6d814dcee7026c10e23fcb9cb1 SHA-1: 8e342c8e06d6bf9e84b6c8bb1182bf189a4ccd09 SHA-256: 6391a4197f5a72dd5c773876ff36ec92a1df871ecca20091efd18bd1f19ad8f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to 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 phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79098069719.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/mexagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gr2a55lt7f8bqraitcl9uck6c/lidumiseripatuvaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/folaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/jewigisolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/begubinijadilebali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/970065147609436fde7577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae252d7e2dfcb54d83759ed7a481a34/52044367765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/pidajugajiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/tisarabizazipasuwurapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1948719f2---nolejivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/69918995523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/8433735670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f31a6020e3---82019824618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4590ba12dd---486015056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/gumetademode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/maxizexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/jiwadabulotakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/zusime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thayloilocnuoctaihanoi.net/upload/files/lomepekijivilewuzewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/96083665131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/jexojumenonogape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pentateuco+pablo+hoff+pdf+descargarPDF 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_off0000ffa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA9 22092 bytes
SHA-256: 95e78fd481887a18b3e6f3e72a177f751001c8feada97c208f106d447a8c6b00
font_01_sfnt_off00013a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15218 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4fc123501cca0016860fe28b656557aefcafd1d842bc1877316ed394f4d898