Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b69c2bce053212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9daf2414407af5fb79cda44363f7b1af SHA-1: b85c2dd367eceaa8d176ac289d8e6ac591644153 SHA-256: a6b69c2bce05321254895b40c8ca1d695e9cdbefb98bc743e7c7ee0a44547bdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings point to a malicious PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/163080773355999160579.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ximangcampha.vn/upload/files/47234565875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kedalizewopagimanugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novefaxonabowuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b7c643974---9277899920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad307777127c1f4d99e10ec2e6f58b69/75972918947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/99879044823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/turelarudofevepatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367414c7dfa---vanase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/6189403839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/98689658814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/68786534271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocoachfox.com/userfiles/file/wukiwitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68723836015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/75029065145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa8c56d843f71b4700b833fb95dc273f/xaleraruwofadexiravup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/39161454281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/3717731068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricettebiagi.it/uploads/assets/file/72235039372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolisboa.com/images/ul_files/file/c3ITUayvC90K.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/pudemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhlgr865qa5ulkuc0d2i49mlso/jozumararilenufezinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarox.ru/public/files/29765318912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/17391757127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaamir.ipixpms.com/Rapport/public/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagakerumopomidiweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=heart+diagram+labeledPDF 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_off0000cdb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CC 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 91f910d893a58b6490ce4bedf6c61019a96f775a039cba1f9e569811df9ea84c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCD 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 87d060845347d63890862c2764bccc9ce710e3ebcdbf2e9f742e6fb4e0c6c6c1