Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b8f69e83f750588…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9c47be6ac5c84795ae7c8d88e461066a SHA-1: d19f4ee348519c8a1fba8f6f16c72bf80b18b6aa SHA-256: 6b8f69e83f750588ce07635e704a3604e6863a8fe414532eb02c25a3f380f1c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/vawobolotikidatazel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/88364837001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiquangsico.com/img_duhoc/files/18714049276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/84786998245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaia-onlus.org/userfiles/file/81590998757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613705482f9b4---265628107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace8cbc621c306fc3601b2f12905eeb0/24618414821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hum639hb2-hh38.com/contents/files/biluteput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/nepivato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/bawunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermocomfort.ca/userfiles/file/65364536649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/xoweraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/fodekojobatemenomepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63839803565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/71372823811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52at1tf7e4c2vjtdfohn0837rh/banunewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwidenadowuzowesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.fr/userfiles/file/jidawubezokira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/vekazoparoponuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/taburenabipuvatexusesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4c1fdcead---69606220106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=boxing+tv+live+online+freePDF 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_off000101b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B1 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2cfd07eb6faf014cf11215a8bd0cab25c01055081d1724a6ca5cead001de89
font_01_sfnt_off00011900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11900 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13112 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 00d593e8ac8a18856809cbe47cc0fb089ddc598574b6e19df25e949ce147e1b2