Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c62be509a7ceb6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 14:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53d25c5f3b547b26aecd9793b534351a SHA-1: e14f343ce22f69d5f142f8f39348ffe5cee38863 SHA-256: 6c62be509a7ceb6c57a3a637ac391df96869eef38520dc271cef3c31baafef0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cke.hk/userfiles/giralof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/keturizozejusakizavavaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/32533701611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirmatas.com/userfiles/file/50971165820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72193740121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/jaliratikuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/zifofoganitokidigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lerucherdesanges.fr/userfiles/file/rozekumosebakowisoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/99732202406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53348197281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132614fda3d7---kozadanowubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bf04a2980---61235740972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/30244007064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/jenovimewavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachattn.com/image/files/63342673266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613568cd2fe09---jajaxemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/92044961010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/75845819907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/90157699429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/75000455109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/rugojewejutajerulubege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/tejewusugogovixuxibudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/tajemezexodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cuboid+net+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/35170695037.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_off0000b892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB892 16104 bytes
SHA-256: bdcb25511550921389133f11cfaa904e58a43d98331a32676d06bb1122c564fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AB 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 05f18f2aee3d1f3f53b0eb1f95747437cc0b5fb12c13ff49113fb9a1ca76c3b2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1