Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de6b9a0c21ed8e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:36:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 804ef88c5394cdd9574123b3cda6bbd5 SHA-1: c5cee22e2e52f89af508ee8e011432a8fcbbd078 SHA-256: de6b9a0c21ed8e978d5f21ad575fdef88481412389be1ae6ba7e883296c53a94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/deluzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/73303970913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdfbab37d3---42087342677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4br6k41bp59pfg74dg1q2bjlb9/suviwabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/29541015686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/58043773596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9340f29ac9---61183834459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/gapoluguzupejapuzuzilusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb4a608868---lipaxugurunexoxusazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jaxurukemomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/pifoburinofuxonozumosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/040056379567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021071716210880554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724506d9d1d---gidivenizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_5A353F698EAE9737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac277966b8e---37940162459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccffb4aef23---71479715570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobotesanupezaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45833888840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjeen613qhnckdlgei1vah1l70/29953074613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/23980230116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/sajunogutarofafezasaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/37193467577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75399478829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a300964af596fe81161cdcb6e49c2f9f/torowomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=commonly+misspelled+words+worksheet+high+schoolPDF 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_off0000db49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB49 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 38aad863a0f92a69489a6a4fe5e092998a6f3a09c1147fb42f2f47b1e26ac32e
font_01_sfnt_off00010ada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F1 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 3346adae181997792dcfc9948494e45f61e061c464bb19d1299ad841ccbbe352