Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b129782f458a661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 07:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 103f156925eb72d5526bfacf6f510d12 SHA-1: d3a735211efa55a3d6ceaeeb938a24d2e2429f4e SHA-256: 6b129782f458a661bb6a2a768b54679ff832495d5765333784f4b405317714ec
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 are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://goneviaggi.com/themes/userfiles//files/84814659732.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/botuzumuwuvekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livuwezexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchofgodinjamaica.org/app/webroot/files/fetikadulavevifelaminob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74c12907f1---75527497508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozovojififefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc5a8a4838---80124087611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/54758138052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec225bccd8---82045761207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5adfe421fc0a83931e1bf5ff927caf91/mutozokenadasazimototufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775b9c9b35b734e88f0746d766dc2d5e/89319813970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0ac3a2321---38958492362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/52954707805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb1d35a085---gisifovenuxituxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdcb5e7359644e1a843ad81059d8a5e/ludazuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/vokanepanovosozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9403b3f27ab24a34b200c244f6048a3/13842908672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29d229cb06---tuxisavifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/63395368771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental1970.com/clients/5/52/52cfbc2c58cc98a1938bca6351e90795/File/lutubodefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f05bbbe79450a7c92920f4030d7370d7/wasibobanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/67383776265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/85217331561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/lotogivazusevudakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=plan+d%27une+maison+de+2+chambres+salonPDF 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_off0000e60b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60B 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 77ab248e6775ce12b13247f78d0c7eee4f64a01d56a29407b9340848a418a382
font_01_sfnt_off0001174d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174D 10932 bytes
SHA-256: cb4322028cb2a47066566a56ae2c3b10a7fbe7fc0077f1c3202b80ade2387fc6
font_02_sfnt_off00013076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13076 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1