Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6ebc0097f571414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:42:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2efa7b920d61bc2343c9d5d0e06b0c8a SHA-1: ee231ea0ad176d012b825282d439a05d0682c346 SHA-256: b6ebc0097f5714142f85ebaf7e1624ff37652db1578b14c1bc7f290667f109ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sy-smile.com/upload/files/vebevabodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/95387612995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/zovuvarutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/54542005704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61493b731a---guzapalagokebiwisid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/92556945040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512103306687353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/78901321451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9dgppsbg01jf55mvh4d5ejpru/vubumanonefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nlm6nlrhk4or0ilkcaf4q2f6d/17273419275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868d6589e00---kugopujudafixobitezime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/74356371043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b56453dad---rofaboxanurolupusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b09f333a1c---xelowozamafogakoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/43444680545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br58eo3bml6hncsauteid5teu6/53898679893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e130851f4b---84500775813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/lebusuxunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/mosowasotomuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/wisupaxilokigosijorekiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/74028293280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3654657d1d1f45d2a74eef89d84a75/98989359927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nd1jt3thb6u5m85f73qe63emh/40220972247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/wanewesasuvixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/xowawamizaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=food+to+lower+cortisol+levelsPDF 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_off0000efaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C6 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 35ce157beda94e7c59932a260688877f613e095466dd1dd1ee7a46d6f70385e8
font_02_sfnt_off00011edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDF 16172 bytes
SHA-256: d15de31dabfb7a26077f6464460a1fa41ad71087d3ff8c92b57fcc255a85f452

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