Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc6fae5566c3f9e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 03:38:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d8d57f5cbf89d6ff6fd6401b2f692904 SHA-1: c2ab9059dc400dd3e696d0163bf38b791a975ee7 SHA-256: dc6fae5566c3f9e92c242cc14f850f0a42f9b354b061cd5e6022881ce2cc26e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+geo+spoofing PDF link annotation
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugerotetotozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/42708957238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.com/uploadfile/files/64739028160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/23027399620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7332150ff55db7a7aa04bc9fe28f5325/89237525696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/xupuwiwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353afbbcb71---71760198661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefani.cz/fck/file/5862612719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/89899691790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/91041093407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/tadopinodopovaneluxofita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd9d199aaf---7864839099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/98816520702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_E0241CD19532DC84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48678debbccc3074415cd1dcef344c64/91380389013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/18700698025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepalbestcargo.com/userfiles/file/56799351502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/45642499924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/tinadujemorilokijafudugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449dcfc5807---26067565865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88939976265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1459dc512293adfe67449542b4ed74/kijatedidusepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210916001645_jur4m9.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_off00010081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11898 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 2baae79c2d0913d9fdeaa88c99f7a333aa556768cc09a44a615573594c45a220
font_02_sfnt_off00013015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13015 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 831286be6bbd3211784f50bc7b199269e60d4370bc7fb534436a2ea104c0519e

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