Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6c374592bb7795a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 00b1dfa7d7d835e6e7a4ddaaa2b7a89e SHA-1: 5c97037beed99fdb092809895210af584dfc4d61 SHA-256: b6c374592bb7795a7dd8d9426a3d38f56b98c9242774f649ebfb2b8e2c623a72
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bangla+electronics+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/55117545613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a1485914e45517433bece95e6dd9b8/widanowiposaredifudujave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae6fd26bf25399140cfa263bdc0cc14/toxizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4071dd261---xudomoveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/76280912181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/momasobuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/jozixosekivinarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa35717a9e---44643779122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62ce66e6eb---58837111346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/depiwuxoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/wewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/16170292294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///88351001105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/93081612286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longearedhounds.com/clients/65743/File/luvopusefotopubagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/judep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8926536bd63639be55f029d7ffb9363/15034690502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg3p21mg3rrlpadvdbsse36gtp/3282868287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/nizabupawisuruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3g42tsspbq0ll7h9rv3oaektp/29894710447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldcar.jp/userfiles/files/murapexumupilenenovifefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaf3da5fc4---batuxixokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/zujefipetot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/zironotusezeg.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_off0000cc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC6F 20488 bytes
SHA-256: cc93ae45c1fbe8a811652fc15dd439f897142a5307eced914d610750a9ccabbb
font_01_sfnt_off000102b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC7 11168 bytes
SHA-256: adf7beceb5f4e2256cbf40a66c49399d935a3eca31b1f55c154573bbbe63b776