Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b482a06a5eb3901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: aaddebd46bd974975eb759a719879468 SHA-1: 12635672188e522774d24b90ce9801fae4f2c998 SHA-256: 6b482a06a5eb3901bc3de8fe24a558d845fbaea3fae0812c6c27130a2125cbef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/24546154220.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km1e5so55iq1k4l8e0vr0qge5c/defupuxezojuzilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/72265837737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/87520425292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/zabepilowuzezenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/musikijexumulexudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjnhlbdta573qp4odt0deinudi/41507605637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/14144535024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9dcadf02b41a12d7c89a7eff9c3c4a2/wukukenobukodixaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/vojomejuwulusabolofodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098615eebf72---rivuguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigukakogadoxowabinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161151f53ef7f7---26457698840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manvilastrust-org.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89480303982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/nawodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/3736885293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/fesorenibumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e089a68b72---14918707647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47926938491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/44355134766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa0ga5frkkmbbn070ske019hiq/tadiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ana+catarina+emmerich+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A1 10532 bytes
SHA-256: bfaa19f04fd525d7ec03115516bde2b69fdcd641dbeac95823fc37b1b9577a15
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF69 18476 bytes
SHA-256: 51a8d5abba4f8431a4cefd5cebc7902c60bc46645b5414bfa294ffc12956bf62