Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eb4a784dd84d3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:33:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 93f7767936688b829225ef971f28ad6b SHA-1: 7149df234d9f89119c64b5ed2d4a53a2cca2ef22 SHA-256: 6eb4a784dd84d3f177ab58c7e30bc93e680d0a530c3f5729ef9b877395c89c5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicate a pattern of hosting malicious files on potentially compromised or low-reputation sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zematepijunadedikogejut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pjcwyy.com/upload/file/wisepinelulaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/33730451423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/38251022463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95835448425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/gedaxufivanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutisimanezilevesigezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezakunuxilorixixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/lobozasijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/xepejuxibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/18329485192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613834b544dd7---31566446647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff9fecc7eb---42871737072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/vodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irs-messtechnik.at/upload/zijurozaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/55124384670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/dewisava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2005045d361615010763d8dfa2d9c8f/78209843532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/82872236581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/61847132781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/54694812544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/kavawapurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/83359558981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+pre+activated+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000dd7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58E 16484 bytes
SHA-256: 301df2366138f91c9c4b8296f82812660d4d2912a67a9c0f78a4f4339f02c35b
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD9 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b576c5f4ccd7268f4e3ea918c6b0a7c3ae3ba103faac0d2f91fd227c659c8b98