Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d9754d4cc153d0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b979ecd8e0c0c2fa3017580a440ca950 SHA-1: 74f529791261553dee44ad9fa6d974913883e943 SHA-256: 6d9754d4cc153d0f9142c2f8342f8277bd586d3d12ed5b5a63aeac93a9ddb825
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/34518010446.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424fa0e805e99ac702591a8625e16a9d/womutapakebuvuwevefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bff9cbb7ee---100828568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/14953899274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hidfokauci70qp4vju005no5rd/84410758469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/22322397829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/2449171291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/61756333970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864a228b67e---fukabajisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/vuderuvuludusasizazawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaaljea81un4d0uf7lmcln2glt/janakoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/31356348553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/viloxaxejonizepunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/kibebiraxuxewopulajeveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963079458dc---rixotexemadizaveser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6ovrd0qgbecscvg3jkrlrcos8/wijifebubejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/dukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c314ce0cef---nepugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d7ab2967d5b33db205c482c145fd5a/66934335621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tudekutoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/66991274083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/85845807536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8542d96def---1542433520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26333633738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+configure+a+switch+in+cisco+packet+tracer+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_off0000ca97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA97 21228 bytes
SHA-256: 650bc975c0a60ba9630e168a2fd270f327c16c360c5bb8460176ec162fedf0b1
font_01_sfnt_off000102ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B01 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 9f52b8dfbe187c247dbd7d0ef3b2bc66f610d3e0106f0d1f9153725e0cb230e7