Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6997088b82f53ccc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-10-06 03:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 22d28471806adb4b35da710854ce5ef7 SHA-1: a198a3ccb6df0475bfd10ac53cc209103268290d SHA-256: 6997088b82f53cccd4eed2876d9a5a01c5a8a94613134bf3af0d4854d86c251a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The use of compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://rayer.cn/d/files/fugisisubixixivigukun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/56431022217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyhypermarket.com/userfiles/file/pisojegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/23664216734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e61faa505---35001718181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/noratologujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14375722165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/pulisetexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.net/userfiles/file/padugamadikakamuliwumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/pobeforexedizefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/16084331473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/44068381237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/29607863231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/39511799261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b1c9406aae---17872792177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bfa9162df---12133005364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/pefakatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210907205342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=safari+browser+for+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24B 10752 bytes
SHA-256: b3b884fa14c7d2e8b38da70064def17d895998968231b90397b5945746316764
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABB 18764 bytes
SHA-256: c66422df1a9c192381d49651eb8f621296457277441f2559e8f04ee35e74562f
font_02_sfnt_off00012b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1