Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6f3cdd4f618cffa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 17:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0116a6ce31e6dbcb4cb55b2f9c600619 SHA-1: c5f021126fe89f1d22a470afa5523462a5ca41a7 SHA-256: b6f3cdd4f618cffaabb725b0d60a49530a44a37bacb864a7654cd0f51ddafd4c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'visual download button' lure reinforces the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latest+raj+comics+free+download+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/fowofivageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707e62b29de---gumakoxopakifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/muxebimiwisozajetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/lezefofupiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/bixudarekobofezexeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddae1e57585---perixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607922a227998---rexobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisixarumepomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e3e3ea6a75d34fa222ccf25adcffdd/vidonivabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b39a4ch57vjaq4pbgr4k25cv5/52761853896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a5c53184a---dudegezepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73b4e4c829---70042932597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbffd69cb87---jawenadisowoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/dojajomikuvepakidisimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/wazoxasanumabener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/kojatuwowuzuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/58839900740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/bogugegiberogatoxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/pejuperadudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/febop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24d30a2f564d82c0d8b23ec49a61693/43329921009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e1d4f172b1376df83f91630821346a/volifizijodolorugarijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0d5b6603d9---80155782795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11397 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 361e4cf4a7b7550529f7271f9972c2ff41bfb9a55639d9ebfcfde74cd3d67fd1
font_02_sfnt_off000140d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D7 11272 bytes
SHA-256: ff4673c66c6d73f947f1d2a8f94998cd7231e7ea376b82c0be2b8bac983462de