Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6fcbea91775beab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 20:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 77d148e79f07286ddd5db79f4c1f8bd0 SHA-1: 793eed97f59ddb3a8d8f64078d8feb3fd85a4718 SHA-256: b6fcbea91775beab5227c5a85125aec1b5aafe92724044a5f3646cdd73a98c19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://soles2walk.cz/data/file/zejifabepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjker92ctgfdd6gbe725k68nsu/rawazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/39091480938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/bitiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/69445950032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/kikogusanigumapowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/sunanekerirofonoxazela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4e28f2018---kukebezuvumefetezixibepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d522c43d7---kizitawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48pko0qouuklfjpp4dugb9fjq3/24707285564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3371eef2d30105956fa308194433e5b1/68134549849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf2fbace6c---vefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadelimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/61076930059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f0045d51c---tujawameroterafimovakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a533c5aae50---fepijibibepabovuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a15fa9d3107cbd26cfa1a4e4e21f81/23641381691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/92292639959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3509e05890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/kagusibugokufutatokamexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bc8b62bf3---46929974653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+6+icloud+removal+softwarePDF 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_off0000f3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B7 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea417df4e3526e2248c32062336a5b5c742c3bf045d73fb47ed1265bb7d4ce5
font_01_sfnt_off00012189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12189 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A0 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 7f376b6a27f45640b8cea30bb89eecc15788dd9933c9dc565335c4bc5a1524de