Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b7b19b950603dcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:34:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3e6fdf52573ca46070dbaf83c96d92da SHA-1: 9b31fd32b92676d0669bf605250e38c320298cf9 SHA-256: 6b7b19b950603dccdfe2e1e7fc0d6f172e0e89fc2fce26221065698a9917f339
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this document functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+the+surface+area+of+a+triangular+pyramid+with+slant+height PDF link annotation
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents//files/lowopeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0975a3ad20---5188603538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/nubijuvolakelituxixosigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bf7392184---32834823191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/50681296168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipamirijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a1b622c01450618c9e1a7a8de02abb/sebaxonunoruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/45124393116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/memowaravor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/wavitegalamejibofegipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr8sfvtklic163qkflh09vec7o/62384605063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2f5e02eb5ffffb6aa0be7dcc0681ff/kunowuzegirumebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abeeded3a8e---65026042881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/seden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/vanojunowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c125b532f85---mikesodaxuxuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89158732153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77999235125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfafcf840aa---59914385586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/dalava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/28591692616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d35ce336d635a724a4c8a5dd7c80474/13846189803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/35816782520.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_off0000f176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF176 11360 bytes
SHA-256: d741b41c9b573c5b25cb0b1c9aea4f3ceca23edd6cf65798ed762c5f4e5ec52a
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD2 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 522e25e81cd388851ff0f6d72b781fd88aeccce476158f29656e60ec1ef3e32c
font_02_sfnt_off00013c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1