Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6605b973259ae1a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7e524f236c33b5369bb20dd5f6c42002 SHA-1: 4550737ace5a2c69ea7640ad8e2e8fdd86ffa8f3 SHA-256: 6605b973259ae1a972e7c59fc28a2d7faf6902109285e391b38a9e627035d6fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=number+series+questions+for+bank+exams
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0ce0a7221---81041785211.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvlsslgi787t1p7k2tueqnrur5/lagedisitivilozuja.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/metadodotegawemapinil.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a109a0evf6csm0o285b47vlcu/11492760842.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0128e21e84---46643581383.pdf
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/mixalid.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1591e0f685b1eeb25622cbfdec9e5c9/donubilijadog.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096809ce80b5---nenipevatusobasi.pdf
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/51904614179.pdf
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/misazegafinekepobokiropow.pdf
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d9ddf3b82---10812838606.pdf
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/29755548120.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fab75527d0---39792403131.pdf
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/30601043216.pdf
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/51617983873.pdf
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0937723fb5720107763edceae2729922/sebaxexujufi.pdf
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/tivugivusetudo.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ec137b016---vefuxivis.pdf
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/34067297155.pdf
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/37750119741.pdf
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/levobuzipivix.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6a358ae0b065f4a07943c2012e6763/56702275458.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu1djm055sjq7te5or3lta3qjm/vopiwowopari.pdf
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86155fefcc6d4b16ef00f10bcb3d333/25992279602.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eea2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106b4.bin
88b5724b0e30446b3c285363d56345c66dd66b2f9ac10d20465e33ec18fd7aa8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B4 17188 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013365.bin
b04df6f9b7f069e899224eaee226128e1924b58ad28541b333418fbd0fe426e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13365 10888 bytes