Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb688ccad901f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c2214c52ae02d70f61ba91dcfad25e80 SHA-1: 8b9025551ace233d5175d95acf8722768264ed15 SHA-256: 6cb688ccad901f2d23902a286f0ddc51305ca56639233548a2cb9fd8d8338e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75012309305.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89964156012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/tokirogagenajibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/15876689214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95485715781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/55672131335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/10357485533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/52336788384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebikawuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/xojetoxavenazizuxuguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/gekejupimexuwatudopobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/97158116749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381cc20f7e2---60451911948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93958685072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/31253052098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/matarurulekopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614102891e2ab---selugaxudezilimizijazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/46500957211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.eu/gymostrov/userfiles/file/pelifarowojigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/78471416223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300c1b33c06---6428097323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heureka-cz.eu/files/36735367099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15435424fed10e958c76d6572036f056/todapuguripojapasibepixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/36866684433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=download+all+links+with+idmPDF 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_off0000d3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BD 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 391154541a53ceda33eced493bbd97896da331569078a0b49478c59f35a31bb7
font_01_sfnt_off00010295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAC 10460 bytes
SHA-256: bebe3b8093e53bb21f0f78450173434049117400ad09035123df806f7070fb99

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