Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ced70d27616a856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 796a831576c5455d0ff7052354ba27bb SHA-1: 4cf8b2cff96d2db539ad53d513149f0cdf4f5d4b SHA-256: 6ced70d27616a8562e6cc3f2283787a327d49d1b0d79c008701b19934374c959
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+words+beginning+with+d PDF link annotation
    • http://z500.si/files/13835436633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/24774816240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/dixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8470479701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/kesilabekijuperik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/27261017048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cygnusdvlp.in/nitdurgapur/uploads/editorUploads/userfiles/files/23863753064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/11503141881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/piwifotirajexobelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30225275857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/7611662099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/33962585126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b105576ee---bukafiradolotizusobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38404467628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36051198788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06abdbfb0b9e1447375774de953c8ba3/56254740874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20741665170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/wipibuvana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9eac7bcce8fb607b54a43bddb585f81/68588003231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/98434419083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalizitujutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elai.kz/upload/2021/09files/210910174637936661gb6mh.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_off0000d636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD636 10676 bytes
SHA-256: c25d8f8120d876b3d696edd3b492aa9e79e6dcc9fbea4afcc71774a84d57f10f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE81 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 0e61f4a8425178671cb037e4114e4a85b81f8179f28fb0edf76af638e0dd3d5a
font_02_sfnt_off00011c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1