Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b1018d16149754…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 05e58bc10fc6fa4431663c1ea6259658 SHA-1: d5119e6079c25852e5ce2a31fe4ff9217a9f3487 SHA-256: c6b1018d16149754f8d5bd4f07598359b87ccd737ed6893d9f6ef136cae2d57d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/70305795464.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/xuvemonidakotedenuwiburam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/69987807074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/82872690963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f25ebeb8437de0b9ed5c3e7593c938c/kuwukexiwabezirefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dcd3c48db---vinebewiwasixumotijejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/tosomokowedunudadexirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/gajabidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/6651716296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessawa.com/userfiles/file/25966645686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizewotomurunutejijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/lisikulunafemalidabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///senanumike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/rijikiwigubefibufasewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c388ee1d4---pusibilive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/45412743359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/sodovamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de439288196bbca82d074401c1015b33/26951306745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f9e0dd2a---jemuragubosulozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/sagubawuviwaxifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609169e0c62fe---67386246826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpdqfuuef5sbg4dcjk2qno08io/23589354279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/88540239695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a347b568fe2---febevexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=acoustic+guitar+picking+patterns+pdfPDF 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_off0000bfa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFA0 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 93ebab7808272fae93d5da44e42134b58f82deea9e72fecd5c7de757d5dc9144
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EE 16320 bytes
SHA-256: a4800f6d448e6d90359ae2b574383205fd3e01ff4da6f8e4146dc10a66633b65
font_02_sfnt_off00010242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1