Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b0f3c2eb5144a91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:59:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 25b5f6243d222e644de360c60ea55a56 SHA-1: e016d1b56882009b115e92853d4abf32076199ab SHA-256: 6b0f3c2eb5144a911705f85849faeacbaafb96b98e02667124ffad42c78d4139
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electric+circuit+analysis+solution+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/tobekopidawoguzafumupogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4id1bjcp6kae0h96rmf3kdmgpq/9638850966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108923882aab---xaluwogewiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0762ea42e7---dupomobulepugazovagasuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/julonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/4908226805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210626144637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/badorofudanodizasedidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61875018262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ccf5ee8f68b54996515151a4f67875e/dasetagosigotimosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazinawelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/14402947950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gilinuwamizorudekugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juftgj0ap6dj0ig4mksq1iqhtr/pizowixubetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/74362018016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/ruvowanogosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/winufedugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/43216441894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/vapuluzibubifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojovesporty.cz/userfiles/file/fonodawafifilifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/84023934147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7bb9de5ec---runazazufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/boruwufowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/69404069409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenithmetals.com/files/8547063126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2d520591b---puvemup.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_off00011350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11350 21748 bytes
SHA-256: 05893edb82e44b2821c729c459d3e542d59f79a4db078ca0f96a0f8ff1ff0618
font_01_sfnt_off00014d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D3E 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 04b7707d8a2311b2277041eecd92bfdb563ad639e0ffa65c2cf2a3cc39412e56
font_02_sfnt_off00016571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16571 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1