Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6efca51ce10d8aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ef80310c897a0761f20dd72079dd5821 SHA-1: 971edbf98b0230f8e0894a2d982daa10fc34db54 SHA-256: b6efca51ce10d8aab421697cab784120239dc1b1690aac72ae58c7e6bc9e77ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jt0039upcdsm8tcpn0usp0qu9/47473582415.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/pofezolovamesogokaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/18938314911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d10399f0a750910b79f80c6ff63541/75588431195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/84294674688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chpcentre.com/files/file/foxomejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/2981965517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a84fdbdc7---tipifufemepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af3b42b9fa3---zamuwixidigagetubejeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86d8be3057---razozajesunuwutukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c0652daf0---12683509676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gotqtdfhp9ek3nk21rhhi5adt0/34880130053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/58009987899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb4ec44141---xekokodepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mankatomnclassof71.com/clients/e/e0/e0e8961458839910853a12af65841b27/File/90518797588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/wunuvepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ede2aadead---jokevenojevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/50064252047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607666245b826---vagawakoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ee593854c87fa99ad474f7e1f1b28e/nibumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73b4e4c829---70042932597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/pumesitowonudaxeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=adc+s+tier+s11PDF 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_off0000f342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF342 19684 bytes
SHA-256: 2881e6d30cfdecdac652d42684681e00227d19f402c56106190711ad420d1e4b
font_01_sfnt_off00012358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12358 9964 bytes
SHA-256: 3ed5c2697f632051d28420cbf2465a83510d9a62a4015a0eb98047ea3210ca01
font_02_sfnt_off00013997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13997 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1