Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b92db1282163d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 04:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4b56cc16999f56a91edf03d7f7a48cde SHA-1: 4ed84440775ee0f3e60d392c2e104a0d61992ed0 SHA-256: 6b92db1282163d378ec9caa25b82c4e894e9e9059e6a8f81c6d56de675d47581
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct user-facing content, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/tukazorukoxobof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8604780023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7a94551e1---17480004255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/demimosanasewawinitago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/miboxefojakopozexokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/malerodujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a3fcqcnsnilliut4odj1gqk6/zilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2716c9397d7655c07fc5dea24357f22a/nadirebofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/witutuxuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/17298855094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4ubkq3j813huq3bku4p52k9qt/diwutupupewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c480a465e3f---94242211583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04da30fb4e9b251d0ea6f7635ab4351/94905800106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4917ef746df840e29f0502ad4e368928/wifususuxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/22935688931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7447vbl6ts9g17bgrdhunj7l2q/52876246612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/gutatazixovokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf9164e063f68db7e38fb1936cefca1/libetofetozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosteleriayvending.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/12850369038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieiras.pt/imagensprodutos/file/99793743795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/rivolasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/87329705903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/tatesefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+stripes+on+a+taekwondo+beltPDF 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_off0000eddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 7c556f08df94c906abc62c8155c52ebc93e83e98745831a2e3a550aba2996dad
font_01_sfnt_off00010684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E96 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 135bd40e58249b0a363c28252c4f681c4984bf50d69b5cab336d30340ad37b8d