Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6e680a44b95cca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a9a585105d77b452cc23cb2a5079643e SHA-1: 5b6dfd40f30ae447db51a05c90b131d7c8b95b12 SHA-256: b6e680a44b95cca4342df82c4e6b054d9795d97aaacfe469a548deec3e6c2b06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://samtle.net/ckupload/files/13253491677.pdf
    • http://spain-ex.com/images/blog/file/gasemenigipexe.pdf
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/negarup.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131650cc511b---luvobetaregarobagex.pdf
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxenokafoxikamubo.pdf
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisek.pdf
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/54138644745.pdf
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigiduxisaxexilidaziv.pdf
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivazel.pdf
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/9628568869.pdf
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/jizomafa.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132510c52804---dilokuxarij.pdf
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210904131000_25c5ui.pdf
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/13671106458.pdf
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/11538323471.pdf
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/42323935013.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1f66ee3b1---85297757687.pdf
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/542628728.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b84619c5c5---44237216827.pdf
    • https://quizai.com/uploads/files/61256992476.pdf
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/66026405409.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369e721bf6a.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=send+pictures+to+iphone+from+android
    • 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_off0000bcad.bin
72fe8f07bdc000e2cc3d33eb190033cc3de9cca26fe27d6dc75e488ac9c7fc93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCAD 11016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d60f.bin
f4e0df6ec2f8279ca36750dacea5f6ca23c95f2265d3e58e8154ecae98d13328
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60F 16680 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001008e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008E 16792 bytes