Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6003d9971553896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-10-06 21:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6a96a0667ee268ae77f7b0c1f5dda763 SHA-1: 97036a70a4765f7709fc308cd17fef0534fc0968 SHA-256: b6003d997155389680874a1330ee5d0566759258c923720c18ea47269128c166
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sweet+baby+boy+pic PDF link annotation
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5bdf513fe523a6be6adc44a6e2221b0/75816104418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/dezepuzelijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/wuzino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/36130711443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_16949B9C9186DD13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/17846927028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/65788530829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/88356455070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210905061209_d84pr7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/siretule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuerst-architects.com/uploads/file/30346196215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimercedes.com/upload/files/takubasejunomipeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makeyourpartnermelt.com/userfiles/file/porewulixitejusajijamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/698870905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipuliropezitijoxulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210929063525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd71863eef5702f532f148a5feaf82be/7824823258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/jajexopizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sojowuvularorumufade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anapobolivia.org/userfiles/file/78264672014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d19689a0f---xosebizunemononodudojoju.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_off0000eb91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB91 10364 bytes
SHA-256: bc413de6ae189ecf1341b76b9ba5ac5f3892b9dac3ef746edefa6519f161877d
font_01_sfnt_off00010300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10300 20624 bytes
SHA-256: a3425b4b1f24bc527182d064389b480db25ab4a8224b8d18c6996dd31ccc9674
font_02_sfnt_off00013917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13917 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1