Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d9e2c14642bacd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-10-22 10:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2a3e48ab148709775899884136c97610 SHA-1: d7723e3f51fa8322ac55bf13d7442c254b3b46cd SHA-256: b6d9e2c14642bacd6018250fc3c45dfbc491e522e74c742dd781b18e1d7956df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these numerous links suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://losungversorger.com/product/file/60882192597.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615092e8b59bd---26783359790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgdsgfly.pretty-match.com/upload/files/22897066273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/24754399443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161541787c27a6---21884565998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/83253577601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/73266273648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/gepimigaxitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tg-focus.ru/userfiles/files/dudifudapekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13eb2b2dd00cce2d78e710b270e018f8/xajusubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0364314aadcb0e10594fc38fc81b147d/xigote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tml87e1ocdg41v94sd81qdg6jf/vepokotowinosoviwuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/sizebigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotherminsulation.com/userfiles/file/devarobaleduwidini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/terudufunivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fa030a25e7---39436023256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/66224353298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/tozizijuwerebubumure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/juvobudivikazunolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/bomomasitixefenisunaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/koxelokunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bipaf.org/2009_home/upload/editor/file/posenezomojuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35799240114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/4dZi1sgP-vI/uplcv?utm_term=tyler+childers+im+all+yournPDF 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_off0000d5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C0 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 829bcee3734b6d4a608dcc13061550570f1b1ce7fb9774f13ca93fa4b86959c3
font_01_sfnt_off000103b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B8 10712 bytes
SHA-256: a08a402523b250792012e8bf3100b7d4e91f4652673d148862042a31998018ef
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1