Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b5c962b2265bcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6b052d6f5fa98eadc517d85b36295d6e SHA-1: bf29f90118e40f82702ec5231aba1d8a4126e8f9 SHA-256: c6b5c962b2265bccfde467f478636e70094cdb5751989e25bf580298b02feb57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites that appear to be part of a link farm. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential for malicious redirection or content delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27410532527.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/76844293675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/31966487023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beamstraffic.com/amb/userfiles/file/370543562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/56530919079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4fb385e1aece64e512f07560e8eff91/wavomimagewoxepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedding-photos.cz/userfiles/file/20274473737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/wepiwepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamsurgerycn.com/ckupload/files/wuvalexulutivitedodove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416c786ff9e---15521866571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/59002382225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450064adf44---tuvijiwixozuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134152d31187---lefakeganodokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/44683706263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nachhilfeschule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binapotomoputeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/fesalojuluxekorodote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/51908644978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210911155919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattlebestteriyaki.com/uploads/files/37441914914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/97651511285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c58522661---kunodevaxanorelejeduteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/batipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/46412364477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/resamuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/fatabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://processwork.archerhuang.com/ConImg/files/zasadiwozusanozuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=20+biggest+economies+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000f3de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF0 17824 bytes
SHA-256: ea2faede5e365b68528c24e9bd2f44a4c4637aa850ecb79d6004646a9ead1f17
font_02_sfnt_off000139c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C6 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 5205e6fa5c6625fe78f61e0b3c120ac019fb8ac6f98cb15939fe769087513eb7