Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be5c61e5e58d048…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fc7f47e01e3293857e9982b2fb3c06e8 SHA-1: ad045107420bae386061812b00d66c7d1ec9657d SHA-256: 6be5c61e5e58d0485a576cfb80454cd52fb879ed25396ed7f38e1da1728b8d1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fill+out+form+4562+depreciation PDF link annotation
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/56306629534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/94928018159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/63854293766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/99003919685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608070aa1aabb---bujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/gozusewozogoneziwowopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4a9daeef0---gojorukepokuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f811c0faa9---denopipufowugimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njm8dr87t2bl6mlguptl217gvh/7733188757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47qcl7p6p06nnfij2aet730mp4/87063004661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9p3qti6h31niv7hm9md5t8vo1/bebajobojudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70739ad440595837785e47e17386342c/jiwizolewole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/33617214528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b8200137a---didex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/miromimekaguwata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timecraftz.com/userfiles/file/44822791491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021080622423756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/wadujevowinegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48q6062loj8dmj6uf2k2n0qit0/83807882664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/16220158529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d2038d082b52db8b722577f6099c6a/53161390812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fec7e3c9d---89724571856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cad8077fad1e14d3520ddc5245bce55/23857331687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/baxudosetevapulawowitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd744b7f847---18057962936.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_off0000ec88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001049f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049F 11292 bytes
SHA-256: dcfbede70ea3c0f546b78b7c5898487319ee6898c45a60bb5ff5b73a8d1a5426
font_02_sfnt_off00011f3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F3B 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 9c04284135af7fac380ba8a5b569e6d17f9acf5d009cc74da510ddbbdc6df881