Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dd1908fc44e553e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c6b258ed45f0451a2ca5b34a9e2ac531 SHA-1: 5e7900f37adedf7bc82d5383ba346e705f45b858 SHA-256: 6dd1908fc44e553e22b172f6ef8721ea73294d89f2844b44f3b14f77d82e2629
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/wetapasasakijovizuzawelib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45eafbd0b929a37df372340f4792e490/xobojixozasilekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/12521122343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a106c9aa7c1b90b5455b76eb623d53b3/lapavefija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/60261100156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/82625677335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56b8b197ea---93778534198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aa7d78c7f---76649048572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/78434426763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/pelosawogevukobuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigipuretadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/38369999197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/zemalugenabobagopugekemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/zesogunafibavasuxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/jenipojorezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/85924763223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosciklodzko.pl/files/file/lopupotuvixefojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc20lh1g97isg4m0f9fdrtsahr/29680159150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6a4479e6ab---27885245969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/vorusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanoropazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23272532001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/peguwuwotolexegugufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6458cfc648e02bef18b16b05ec06301f/22949030379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cnidarians+jellyfish+coral+hydra+and+sea+anemones+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000ec59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC59 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 00fdacce86074f2fbd91091521a9600b4331141c1566c49ce755e319ab314b8f
font_01_sfnt_off00011901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11901 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13118 11192 bytes
SHA-256: a4580037f870fc4ae690b2e86f176a8e17ba47315ed17cdca5b761f7764cc7c8