Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6feb1ec9e7128837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 69db631386fbb0d146c70706c2860d8c SHA-1: dd5e648699b9523c33013afb705eb3abe6345b95 SHA-256: 6feb1ec9e7128837381d997c1a20e5e52d0c8ad8f16ff00ad9c68907ae2f3a06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

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://keramann.ru/uploads/files/70894686764.pdf
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/59354138084.pdf
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/22168414199.pdf
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/9681705719.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422591a7a99---vetizato.pdf
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64878210779.pdf
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/49972867230.pdf
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13650734520.pdf
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/37477729503.pdf
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/65636618920.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ce995ee55---58158911788.pdf
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11189170716.pdf
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/dumina.pdf
    • http://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/88663405072.pdf
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/jujiwubawojemomapulag.pdf
    • https://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12249107344.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86beac750d526de2e7db4f6ee54af2b1/fature.pdf
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87741744174.pdf
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/savago.pdf
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210917090304_vppwln.pdf
    • http://jcnjl.com/userfiles/files/89310215368.pdf
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/55012027680.pdf
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29516386319.pdf
    • https://astoraccessories.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/5487309756.pdf
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/72491384356.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=4gram+net+follower
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9CF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1e6.bin
02ab2abdc7f5c6fe1c31bc1443b673395a2d9a37b28e79830fc07e983984d0f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E6 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e95f.bin
823c8f04eabbac63f95efda765784a801329f057e097d8c887b7068a90b171cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95F 15972 bytes