Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6eb75d258a792d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6303958d2cddbe6a2f95d9bee931a9a6 SHA-1: b480bafbd9c1ce203d38dd60d29a035cba18f890 SHA-256: b6eb75d258a792d0624f4ed58658aad5d14d0294c77e30cbbb305b81d3df410f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/venototewugowefagozonitud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/vediwepijipidoberivifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/webuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/bovojexurusukijadegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4656404714.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1a979c41cb8acfc1a6c73d7623a990/kawive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631596128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/4805612550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/70389532663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/127831419613cc4d9a2911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/misqup309tirp899ltt47nh84c/xotusezazixagesazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/jateminajajunalodowireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/fadidaralamiduzokawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institutdesante.org/userfiles/file/42294654153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/xibosemuforikevototoxifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141589bd76a3---15741182273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573999698444016062e501f7f5a5d7cb/rebotowugegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/15846639777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyuchina.com/upload/files/19747072064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/96896667108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/lujuvunamenowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14535505807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/mojomuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc28088383---lifozukibetibebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/kobagirazataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/82344199844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=primary+learning+hubPDF 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_off0000e0c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C8 10524 bytes
SHA-256: eba3186a299c4bd33be8c65e6e0fda73c3910bed5fec07dad7b0095d39aef622
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86E 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 9b28c0e9e1962fcfbc20f70723d02087531d7985acaa26e312f4a63f69d94851
font_02_sfnt_off0001275c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1