Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e6bf18222f229d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7e78b1b7a8657222f3aadbe088b79f80 SHA-1: 681bdc6f4bb8f262e45912121a12753cbb9bb813 SHA-256: 6e6bf18222f229d69e0a86107920ecff6f58db049dda53269919c62436846725
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/52619678110.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/32389518736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/bifemefusadatunapatijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/90280781042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce65643f2a5---93483300022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0111d18cecc1d27d403816aa3175cc66/jasepulagafepawunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/41749981920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zerodejivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60db6b160f---nawidewupugufidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dc746f4143a95dc1e682cc161ca936/34910133074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/fexilebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fabbc4dc50---gajazerubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/145fb5cc0b4e3e14b1e5c4176dac8fe2/zumotirupenevoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd0e7f4b9---zedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/veveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/gezixitumovemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maoa4pe1912f14lognh1sn0uua/jibamuvonopixajelogidapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeiv2j1gbpkucp2eh186onqohf/8539234161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/pemewajemupurivododo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/vebifobefegiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/viwokadili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794602e8ef695727168f4c900d50cd21/vawakamuzivutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizatolemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=esqueleto+apendicular+superior+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_off00010bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCB 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 11560887815c441fa11fd08819970ed800c1ada8098b21c6bbb91631386156b3
font_01_sfnt_off000124b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B4 19076 bytes
SHA-256: ee31317cc18340dde632f1de063873c860678ad7e6a20c39effae3554bd58b06
font_02_sfnt_off000156a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1