Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2b6c537180446ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 20:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 61f60fe090c5c8e148734bd7c3aa13ff SHA-1: 9f589fd7c6a7a73901b5342d0d62e2175aac23b1 SHA-256: d2b6c537180446fffbef1744175406ef449645f7d77cdc310d39509b1bdb727d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a tactic to obscure the true destination by using disposable hosting and UTM parameters.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shs+biology+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305a18a818b---vilasekofuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/30029751100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sirabeveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161478c8521609---21623768356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142bf521f313---pinunodimete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/lasebokovikoxetedajonakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/rivirokukoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93vd5jmtuqga7il2pjmnbgqv4/16808487310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/nimorofopefuterezusitave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaindaman.com/contents/files/deliruxavirovisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjpharmtech.com/upload/files/vadufisewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/83084002849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/sisepenitulevejeridos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/ronazupima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/venorulowuxujuduzexaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pokereshop.cz/data/file/59100230363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscovalles.comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/jekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210917130237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/99045374466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/74090100810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/84743476524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/woretorifirileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/87350552564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b9027cba15---zewugafuzafemepugovabine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b060.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB060 10936 bytes
SHA-256: cfd44aa40410971ead6010c4e9db5a50ba8417abdad2c0d7011174840a8c0c33
font_01_sfnt_off0000c972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC972 15684 bytes
SHA-256: acac185683e54cfd2653adc760220fb1628418f1bb0897f88682214a9ccc2d47
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1