Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6223fdaadd34fd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9662bac785d179cd64230b8a0ee42849 SHA-1: 93cc61937931814218e009151d7117c9db2dad62 SHA-256: b6223fdaadd34fd344bfb07046773d57b294c4301b855985d8f6cf082b699eab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to multiple potentially compromised domains, including WordPress upload storage, further indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports these findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapalizegakapimexitedesun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13858382385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/59304430683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/29379738209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsauto-bar.com/js/upload/files/86622348051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428ce41ea9f---zofifefewanato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutiziwitojemido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/80078629166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01abb7b1ce40e69c7ddd096d2355a530/kisadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613431542cf4b---mapawulolugepezapifasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/89429823893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132404311d97---55482379775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/segavubodevitarape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punemuxomone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durgabas.coop.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwokakimogowugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minervatech.work/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmconlinecme.com/userfiles/file/92691193597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/46052722276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theurbanbazzaar.com/userfiles/file/41674999996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofifumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zufemotegupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivaluzaxekojokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/60504549382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210914095342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ncdc+mathematics+textbookPDF 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_off00018fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FB9 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd112ed41ae6eabbed7c20b6e4cc1febc824043c6b32a0ee13596670754d4cb
font_01_sfnt_off0001a857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A857 20952 bytes
SHA-256: d4bd8a5471795787601ed723d4f0396e98d660b8e92f1a8b3c71786c74896723
font_02_sfnt_off0001df99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1