Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eb8c5a6c9ad130b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 063e0f74a8b5e9c2d965a86159b5f947 SHA-1: dc558cad2b01230983b61dcbb6a46d18151337ba SHA-256: 6eb8c5a6c9ad130bac0b2762880cce16f07e7e59dbcb8f0a885749120cf46c95
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed a high number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+sims+freeplay+hack+download PDF link annotation
    • http://boisehighclassof1965.com/clients/879780/File/26686923013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ac290b891---xazifagirunuxegupexegimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202106162248174406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/faxubokunepiruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prociweb.hu/sites/files/file/89234405877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3135534790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uksr90iguk3i6invu848a5plj7/23182694494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1d220d263---mefarulefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv0kdqvpkf07mnc91coi5ebsd0/94293262572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/17207483426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954b730a64f---mitepetifefotitaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd2783e8c2---95889709967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bf7ee1c3e---puvewerutigugapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48bb15d523---tosajoridizudabewelumin.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/zogasuxurarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210629141459474842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210606171239_1533031507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8332029656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f282727d51---9278376169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4phnfs8jpdt0vfasgcrnis643/nujiwisipati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffea13f1dda49c80ee57e2789fc9cdc3/wusegiwabotugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/kebezabuz.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEA 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba7765f4678cc179655749b6e8607822dca9371cbd6682181d60a16506d46a6
font_01_sfnt_off00011e7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13693 11044 bytes
SHA-256: d6faae8ddc1e94df02b2dfd23886c89e04c04651bd244f57477e77f4d9dcb8f5
font_03_sfnt_off00015022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15022 1728 bytes
SHA-256: 81f277ff9ca9cd818deb606bd01635905cfcc4a95b7bb16f78738b4b14071178