Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b13f46cdc9e9394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29c8a91ea6f2ce52483bb96134f82b9e SHA-1: cf48e4f7576e59741cc6e1f843f1d93ff777b74c SHA-256: 6b13f46cdc9e93944910e250620f7ce164afa28b99e16210d8c52fc92218a2d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are unknown or point to potentially compromised locations, supports the conclusion that this document is designed to lead users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demugugirizikupakebib.pdf
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/tovezapoluwe.pdf
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifatosizoleji.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4c156f5bf---45166251331.pdf
    • https://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/zuroke.pdf
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/73962297622.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb0d0318e6---kidixodotamikufisavelez.pdf
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/dadasabedipebarug.pdf
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/janim.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614123b4297d5---piboxeruf.pdf
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210917203548_523140460.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358628a6b51---39343705602.pdf
    • http://silverspringabw.com/uploads/files/81748075478.pdf
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/raliwadeletomadopipal.pdf
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/fexik.pdf
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/41065550379.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b91e77b2c806950214551b39cd6016/kabisurewonutud.pdf
    • http://ttfi.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/lofugepulubosax.pdf
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/jixidebujawu.pdf
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/43538651065.pdf
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/23092462452.pdf
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/bipif.pdf
    • http://www.jasolasia.com/image/upload/File/xadevirapasipavego.pdf
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/46066113964.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=dxbx+emulator+apk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d61d.bin
21811013858c6e3b0a09787388afed04406f48ae071b606225e4635a7898919d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD61D 10484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc7.bin
dcabc52ac79e8794197e497d81c7761cbb839a7857f236722b94fb475e2a1b9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC7 17852 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD1 16792 bytes