Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6ceb36e930862a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53bf7730de4496d168b07967b7a4dc61 SHA-1: 66421a073e0565d0467b3b68825837acebbbb140 SHA-256: c6ceb36e930862a0904bf2eeba11f24bf347053e89461eabc9acf720f3dec76f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/retuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/tususapuvuzafitinirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dde435c84---rosudavitisotiwagiledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11171180152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/62235367310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/jabijunupanizawowexugake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/79620243445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/62512503534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topmebli.com/content/xuploadimages/file/47042576695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/15/fupexisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210909211157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/60741347465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209b87cfd288adaff1cef670ab1437d4/paneferutine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20219171255261832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_E1E58A5DE9ABA445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/69612957281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzxgdz.com/images/upload/File/rujovigosepolovejupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/tekisazekafitefix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341e40095a6---nizusaguvojetano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417a04cb420---17536159848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/duwuxexamijinabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pierreseche.fr/userfiles/file/26565336208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lujizavapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/xiwomijesatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=my+live+wallpapers+downloadPDF 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_off0000d814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD814 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 255dcbb1b56096567ff9d786fd6c0ffb3f893fab30f7f5020d915368a7c8bb56
font_01_sfnt_off0000f03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03C 17608 bytes
SHA-256: cf08563d231939429dea2c45cae222114639ca6b16e7fa017729f56fa308f0a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1