Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6122b016dbfd1b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-24 08:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e6b3526a3fdf0a1261ec86ea36a840f1 SHA-1: 7c24eba280f9e210f3f81cfc3be8aca8e18768ed SHA-256: d6122b016dbfd1b92a34a97815f8c09408732c90a6a5b01bd1f30166cac744c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these URLs are part of a link farm, with some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to direct users to phishing or malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubigitebejalilugiwem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://medeeatour.ro/mm/file/67081649696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/72047134619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03791966c963baf2fc569e91f189be9a/didaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/88415837887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/rojojujujuxutiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/munumaturudewiredimisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinanniversarymall.com/userfiles/file/97448189047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68036213577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93f44e68a5a0235ab8ae6b2e4937f7f4/pabewozunugakopisanebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/90072229972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fde573ef3b4a3707378741306960b5bc/87911231178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fn48s6iccmi40aqa4ilaqeil42/rufexolaluzezusetixadoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959adbb3cdd---66685081647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/55415829506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/kivobanudaluwafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210814175601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/wifafefewope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/retonezavinoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/sasokuropukexebemiwapeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/16485237358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cadc5e2d93---zowadomebobofegafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105de031a22a---61684537865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=now+it%27s+your+turnPDF 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_off00010285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10285 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9C 10072 bytes
SHA-256: c5c09a0b745ee900595430767fd603e6912df31e270002206f898fe9f0992f46
font_02_sfnt_off00013149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13149 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa9fe0cfd79f853b9dcf77b6d74445e8ca7a7dc7e4d9c5d2729f8c2e7c5c586