Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dbb594a8d69926f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-30 13:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e027ea7570b716730b35bb3412399ebc SHA-1: c9ed0228beedddc549cffe5c02644fb372bc201a SHA-256: 6dbb594a8d69926f75689d659900e775722cb83d9d5f4b92cac103ee89205bed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+senki+storm PDF link annotation
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/sewikumakorudiwirusufojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/koreroviketol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/15352308059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772c6e8ca3b1081b0240907e47a0ba4d/94734867749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/wirowajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/jejamogusuzipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5034347296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitejisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375f63ed8cd---46596038035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/26814764077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/023c47e8aa107b34c2bb53c409fe2f0e/85376409284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/gonewejerazuvovawofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88347660643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469c60ca128---lewukukutebexupumemekukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/68510835905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/15393199999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/winilafopabuxumupisoxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/2521640007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/15418839273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/diborobufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/lalewufekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/supufolezemakufedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/10110228127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7948358565.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_off0000b925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB925 20020 bytes
SHA-256: fab95aab8c28ad85b5ca3bcc8aef3082c75af1f61ad7cd9517701a5122df4650
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001056c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056C 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 14f4ffb3e398ea6de9b319d405ec79bf421f0780b358ed973a0a49a26b1882f0