Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db6b9cad31a0ffe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 83764be2bba1507672f4111332505bb5 SHA-1: 4cf83336e7f8fb126fc89c2af7ff7f39f0c6743e SHA-256: db6b9cad31a0ffe6164ace8b5761561f08306f5a06fdb4b34b32b9d012bc789d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to a malicious site. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the link farm nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/44334207855.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/52371215862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/42774971777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/77388375795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/mililatatulovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5959b3d1ad792d119f3e617e9e0a41/tujijexegovorazuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/tibuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabresources.com/FCKuploads/file/51449418527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhkeotlds1s0dd3un6p63dsts0/gekobeniloxuwubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/5389277187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/81215847425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88362139175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/mepazulizosabevipotaxusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/tajemezexodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutelopimides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/41285274840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwepoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/mogegusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfb5b0f0d1b8b74b16b51f1fd57d429/28468978869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be14c09890d---33787034476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/jopujuvusima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b7d6ed9ee---rifigosaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/39251586372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpj9jujcoomhuusns68rpvrn4i/kexalowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=countable+and+uncountable+nouns+quantifiers+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_off0000d776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD776 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 5358b28d2be3e0b75f7b6d8236c7e28b082c71cef531b305ad9460b83d3c324d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EC 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 70665527737cce6d1b78b45544165502af8a7866e62d5c56776cda1740472e14