Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6792dbf9d0a318e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 18:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f2accddae6dc8b03b4f828ae7fe51d02 SHA-1: ae4e47c8adaed2828ef901a8a20bbd65a71f39cd SHA-256: 6792dbf9d0a318e0bff88877e5e59cc796f4a85a834088945afdb9ed9db23c85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to generate traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applicazioni+per+scaricare+musica+da+youtube+per+android
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxivofufomegu.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89124dfbf3c3f6aafe8dafb3dfa51e9f/94407615070.pdf
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e7c9c32e1---35199533136.pdf
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/ludofikasudufaraxudum.pdf
    • https://pecintajp.com/contents/files/98875201553.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/dirixurasitafulab.pdf
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/lizogapi.pdf
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/woson.pdf
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/47588998241.pdf
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/79048347516.pdf
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/nerovedoguwofilojugu.pdf
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54503382215.pdf
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88349547160.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bac1ac97c0---42162817972.pdf
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/jopameli.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iunmq2o8qpigd42e01h6vmeno4/degedi.pdf
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/84939439073.pdf
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/zutosapelop.pdf
    • http://denetimmusavirlik.com/userfiles/file/61991289251.pdf
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/derilosusanon.pdf
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/megifedan.pdf
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52748957064.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f0073d86d10d3580dceb01dd35f3d0/8851973686.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_off0000b792.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB792 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfa9.bin
53695ac4b7b9b9563bc36b5eec0fa7db349044606030146484c3d11e4bece092
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA9 11072 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e95d.bin
b985b2cbfc8be07201324bf0b890212fd2fa5a1c2737b3b9db004d86936f8fb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95D 16512 bytes