Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be7cbd126ea8623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-29 02:10:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c1de4f8040f04373bf5167e55b6c3c4f SHA-1: 68cb43907eec2a251a6304e15a7083367365f3e8 SHA-256: 6be7cbd126ea8623cf0f2a9541b8b44e3d978ae8471d255a302c8ff9dfdcdc56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to obscure the final malicious destination. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=international+intellectual+property+law+pdf
    • https://pustelnik-budownictwo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4028473096.pdf
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6737656c0d407c8640178f0f822325e8/favavijabap.pdf
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/pubanozipo.pdf
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/perexerokozowebupo.pdf
    • https://stoneappeal.in/FCKeditor/file/10880995893.pdf
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/rubedokapesojetobikizuxi.pdf
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/sofezogabok.pdf
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/46953208622.pdf
    • https://emotionalgift.youngzonejewelry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5806648007.pdf
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedunakimoxu.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d1fe43d818---totivoxanixovawajeto.pdf
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/japaguvokevokifadeto.pdf
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210923_015657.pdf
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/pixitoli.pdf
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/jagejagawurulawigitanu.pdf
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87768335919.pdf
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/17888020586.pdf
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/32552743611.pdf
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10495816514.pdf
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109281718196723.pdf
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/zulejometigabekiwogefot.pdf
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0230718001632555099.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613354d4a0227---gimizadigodoxivizokuw.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b260.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB260 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca72.bin
d3d50f0bd8b6a4d26a95961ccd2a6c90a679485a4d9125af5a61dd552609e417
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA72 14496 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eed4.bin
43c3d7bccc6e043d1b4338d8a8aa6bff4f0ee114189ea0e4049fee6089444fcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED4 10696 bytes