Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b5ee1c738dd94ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:35:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 32fc54f1b2e72a6b93be1713e3261286 SHA-1: 271d457041bced05d88cb01638a9e43c9100eaed SHA-256: 6b5ee1c738dd94eec2d5d2138c14bbcefedccb5039c3212ce112c5bd5860a1e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically highlighting the use of compromised WordPress sites for hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/xoredakalakuxugelaxemajub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/diwitegowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/luruwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/wiwamezofafabaduvujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/loniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609439a9105d0---64979067040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085445b7d2ba---61320502205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/68752639923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/19017503886123e71f706a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojoqhmgs9tg7lbmum3043n0gt9/nabodapusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/89304277257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d29e7b0f132c0540813effbadb5df6/37462369011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/95065274351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedeweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77911c4569---zonigozofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d55ce10274---61104911737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021082022331395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126b1d8b0fc1---puwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/87654949474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76421510729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40307243474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3mfa.com/images/editor/files/dakepugunorukegabovibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cahoh8vem26r1h65khnpas23um/84534837606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d072c8d3---poloponosaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=extract+all+images+from+pdf+linuxPDF 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_off0000dce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FB 18368 bytes
SHA-256: a02f55355037f57e6dcf50247cd9885d3715f216abd7c1a5720b21307dfce369
font_02_sfnt_off000125d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D0 11148 bytes
SHA-256: f005f14efa2b0bfd32d1927aabc9fed6720053f1c82a8887501d2b2f7babad0b