Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6dfa6d67c59384b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 22:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 286df2050bf39e6ff0164575d30bcbb6 SHA-1: 86c13b4ead36cea0f1a6a017f47a335d775a613c SHA-256: b6dfa6d67c59384b972bb6e5d1d4e02425aa6534bbf1631d3a2ce45ebfff5c30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious or phishing websites, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/bewazewezexarem.pdf
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/remefaberanafuvotilo.pdf
    • http://miele-service-center.ru/uploads/files/gadakitanipajo.pdf
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cadbb3f8b---saxuzumezevokejidivexedes.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l04boobjjee1qacpk47es5jm9c/kavemamoxagufezu.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3056044eb7---22446962124.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9d3abdb8b---88816064152.pdf
    • http://delvalle68.com/clients/54584/File/5823443653.pdf
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15905045172.pdf
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/semes.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2556d92547629a96377a790bd9e89f30/46057042714.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8e24mtkn097l155u9ecj14j6/zugirosowefewubixa.pdf
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7690044330.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d6cb15ecb---xatuxuterubenaposemusuz.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9edb32196b---93469546104.pdf
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/jaregager.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3dc317b60be585b72370385dee0edf6/lejudan.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/53743606915.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4583dc71fd7f9d79ff24bf9dcb43c4dc/98286316000.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf9c74cb473633b0f428cd88f729441/42782175371.pdf
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/minitorejoron.pdf
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/gizakumilu.pdf
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09fa60f661---zazodomidu.pdf
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/sasufijexilolix.pdf
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/84552328749.pdf
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/13311114785.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+mtss+stand+for+in+education
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f489.bin
b42ca4c98b732018d230e405b4fe2121f1988ed83428da734c83b9ae34f749f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF489 16940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001208c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138a3.bin
fbacaabeda223e6512cbcc5f4e073fdf0058f6afacf60ebdff7f50ab4baee293
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138A3 10788 bytes