Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d00b6616db2ba837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 09:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d0c2431b2fba866855d68ab333618e8a SHA-1: e3120833659328fc04cfaa199655275b7f84cf00 SHA-256: d00b6616db2ba83772b926d52e57217b64f6a0dff34371f3526deced3c92a000
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URIs indicate an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/kubupumuwuwipilexasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/77176416077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/gumesije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/38322703234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebara.com.hk/ckfinder/Zenith/userfiles/files/86796013163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_9BADAD9E2733C5E1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bike-accessories.supersites.gr/content/ckfinder/files/kiwixetumafawuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/27255754585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109230716549809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/xalabaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b97616c0829def5a1aa6bc78de3e8c/42137735933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/25071216759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/vixarafazerozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/manirevowekiluxufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/zovanadubigesabewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134075c37852---5868899768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/21841245529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.pt/images/file/rakunate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neksav.com/upload/ckfinder/files/30547730879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/bubovimetuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a4f2b8f116b7017a51aa5786a61e2d/finibojerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanouklid.cz/upload/file/kudoxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafebavupeduvuzuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=developing+the+leader+within+you+free+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_off0000af1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC735 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 243a68938af43b7b0ccc7d7c3647bf4eb2e900b333fe57438ed10fa9698edd9d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE070 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 33d2f54d5532671682c2a95e419758504a2d75cf75f5671fa2c6012dfbd6c60b