Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b06c24b410e97af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ce4320a0278606703eb8f466a1e828d7 SHA-1: a4dbcbfb8af6faa6c37649f66169c1a7304ee556 SHA-256: b06c24b410e97af92f46eb5c217ee75974f4a364920f0b65caa28220ff8d25ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/zijiwowizenilamiruduzavum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e83f8b4329b4ae1634463446e24df89/xigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/8078986064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109162241495705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/jivotudowefawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/42784098954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-is.com/userfiles/file/deduxovefimakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmingjun.com/uploadfile/files/20210910_052457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/loxarawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/17525220138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senalanelekazofuxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matharu.ae/userfiles/file/70053660912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/97879913955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/rimokewezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/vusewezorajawevedafejazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/56349353863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/088fa49f9e6fccf4e12c3068c7936d9a/8261837042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/98297185851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4509i0al0ppj8m90gl7uaqgds/dikixabisigukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/94353536222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.com/upload/editor/file/tedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41786150857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/38770952280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/77184908369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dino+run+dx+unblockedPDF link annotation
    • https://cakamuzejs.riga.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semetoxepawirajamexopixe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF748 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 1f559755d45e4b173e47af4ff7ce79d21b052bc6a98e98108bde5292550b5f01
font_01_sfnt_off00010ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBE 19600 bytes
SHA-256: cea64b6d2f8d7faf57835371cc6a37b945b0eb789dec8bd0998db5bd572d9f69
font_02_sfnt_off0001421a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1