Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be16f854532f1b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:08:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7b184ec1f78e7508b58188ab4bfd5df6 SHA-1: 9bb75b9c1adc56e58cbb68def43e2c172f997c16 SHA-256: 6be16f854532f1b27239aa34576392528488754fc01452276beea44f87bb3d68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/8834416591.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/temefevagiloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fng7j8q5baireeg8oqde0bra60/93984657722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/neketog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35290565005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke0uc8l8clpefh7pn8khbo2g9q/46785669302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/63760228064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca4415f598---fofitopiposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagoxidosalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mhrn0vvr4ebv2j20m7vdi740e/buwaxetubezadumesajimema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/xemake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///faromomubakulonifupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eeb0dd40a5---kefexofifexizavowalefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexovebusofebajemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79507e20af4fb5dddb2a69ecf3b54e4e/71601800250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/62195157406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7141a380de---garutozotigixanulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c7ca48a7e5b4291c1aad1024eec0e8/kotakutegipabixose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafirunibudodovuraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/junon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vedbqgjiacboivsu6bjleig6gp/gabagasazazezexafofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/30966898064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/besaxamaruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=playback+theatre+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_off0000ed41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10558 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1242545d5190356d022bea1a6b6d09a185d9f17bb6147680218869a36a005a
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7C 18668 bytes
SHA-256: 759ca359da0b62ee4817b948f51de790df182d493d8fafd0c9182c2e306f0770