Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bebedb9add58fff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c34a6375ed8754e876ba5beec6db71d SHA-1: 335773967cff6a9d8156374aec40f8e2612a1897 SHA-256: 6bebedb9add58fff15486a42284d6a025516c1260f8baa5ca8d45594756dbce1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings suggest the primary attack vector is through the embedded URLs.

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 https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxibonatokovowo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/88250966652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1606d5e898faed---sofuxanamasirejerewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fae1d6b5c8---nibitovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5dc8550acef1743c3b895de8808c788/gaguvaferomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/pogebezesojezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/dekiniloxutudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce5d0ea3994fa1303aa11016d2f0511/vuxakejoveruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95ac7fab06fe0c3e885eeb134ec9af0/29345942551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/nalifofuwefagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/liraponezonujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc70d8732e---75750607746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/lawixunurukisozogareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utpcomp.ru/uploads/files/68016204014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/wijubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/91080282518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzxf.com/images/upload/File/pibozofagarifizibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/95518233976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc36e1a34721450ed524677d3447df1/rufovolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41860000760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/roxebuzuxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9eb5a050c1bff157efaed2969285c3/bigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hhf46aiqnfgbm3308jang9ldt/gogulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/sosoxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/malodenozuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=journal+of+culinary+science+%26+technology+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_off0000dfdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7ED 19576 bytes
SHA-256: fdb954f8e6e8f5e114618fb1b4fed0633b360e9bfd16cbe35b6f6e9e38907ef4
font_02_sfnt_off00012b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B46 10436 bytes
SHA-256: b1ed2ec16cd502ff0885128ef4ee207e41ecb7d6e0dc32e0ee3f247474447b93