Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6983493c008cd58c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-10-08 06:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6c45df47c7231e1710b5bb1d30691338 SHA-1: 5a64f7faf8d870c56137484715ea93816a1fe92f SHA-256: 6983493c008cd58c00e7c03012b62ebef38c40885dea217301db509c3c98957b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or associated with compromised content management systems. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports the interpretation of the document as a deceptive link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=other+term+for+conflict PDF link annotation
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/pemuwokoloparugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/71891194927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/5873636582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi2en1q8vnj0qa5j5bh79ia8au/mixogapazarofazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/97440068580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paradigma.bg/uf/file/91170552929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/72206452330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/dosuzuzegusububusixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/muvewuzepokoradufemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/87845208036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/sadululedewatarixili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148eb313d933---30967358019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615f5dceb0548---79924644905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ccc45af9368cd13f16188b44704eb9/tiwajojosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/72730405965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/kuvodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac54ce34bd30b4dd896b4c4bd06da05/87483381084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/65011695538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/88262355025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/nadizokutatovusajajunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/jaganuluwovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/61424975343.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_off0000eaf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001030d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030D 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 231fcc426a246494c4a889f1953d7bbe42641b9e322d45e4778de80893726655
font_02_sfnt_off000119fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FC 19592 bytes
SHA-256: bcc02b4389682df89985356a9b606fe135df6a589ce40babb55de5af09775466