Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6b2613b547c7727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:07:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 76edbb74ddfe6179a22b39b6515bcd97 SHA-1: d4a4f64234fa7165bacdf1f541f6bead21648e2d SHA-256: b6b2613b547c7727d6861409153897a9b2c4f0825293f9fc77418dae9e4e0aea
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing an image-based screenshot to conceal clickable links. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6u2h03du5nqstvgqubmmhkic1/11684489990.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/soziketutonoxagawiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/91001492791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/xuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95k0onfl56lsbcmmun9kh8amcc/bamerinivomumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/32216198411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f818e754d---74542306750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/kusagepidojariwadovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210921050040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/36165520512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/884cea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2f478d685d2a0bea4dc8926cd49038/jifalupozedunawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/93579897503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/70577892672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/61509630448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613453fc15ad7---lujaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/kekigutuguvoreraxumaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/mirutunoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/48616950662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/vimekekarusulonuzoreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nut-shell.net/upload/files/vulijokawuwuvinusute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/21541437848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/36821100075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/jibafijutaritobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=a+thousand+years+free+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000b2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FD 11032 bytes
SHA-256: b2734cf6cfb8ab16891abda5575e9b56c001e5be023990cb88f519f02b6ac791
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8C 14024 bytes
SHA-256: 7d7e5746d9e6ab270d403310a3869e19b3a3b41ed15682aeef6a47bb0f5bf81e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1