Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ad64cdb2dc49819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 93efafb9624643fb9f19f4845a398be2 SHA-1: 96158293da4895f0c7a4ed99d7c4ddeca9c24b76 SHA-256: 6ad64cdb2dc49819b56995b0ac964ec07d4c760e6c5db348a5e5358dbf8dc7ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with link farms or compromised content management systems. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calories+for+60+year+old+woman PDF link annotation
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/22680440856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/93843176619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210609072105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f95dbcf7---zezunomamabatawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityfirstservices.pro/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/30053879563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/ritixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nir4bnu7cqikd9a73djveu715l/wasibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/38179454131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609957e2bdc72---38037020277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/55595631630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a01f2a820---76596781250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/momakebanarowiralubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/ralekalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/kadewonipivatavulogozome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54808543433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/xapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/26576611119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/65789953495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde3d0bd4f8---mikobajakifigometob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bdcbc754d---85253502038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/zoxunewixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610475a56ae58---dejenutomexuwexodibubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b0c25b182---petatedatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ontr1s3i1f08so7l0ot88dro/fekekez.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_off0000c76a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF81 10940 bytes
SHA-256: e8727170327193afae5c4fabc2e8bb815f236c06e0423f1538255862d6bae45e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EA 16656 bytes
SHA-256: c872a8ce17d5fc42a0e20fed501e2d7b99ca34ec175ef5e8cfe70916b33d3143