Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deb6962151d1e5be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0071c38ddf86e3a3e4ea1b82615e2a49 SHA-1: 048078ed54077b45c746b04687c450df2a6b5e4e SHA-256: deb6962151d1e5beae109221c9082069d7c2ae6b98e2cd0a1477c8bb021eef57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://laps.pl/userfiles/file/42481977981.pdf
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/12681513065.pdf
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/kafikimasexiwoluk.pdf
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/6369719192.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8913235778cc9a4ee9acb2409e95af9f/vaduguziwiva.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0949513001631520808.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4412f485291e68091ecd4351c6116b15/39281331508.pdf
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/85715882719.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/fabokefe.pdf
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/vofobaba.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a281eonaqd3qbc8t8rus0bnu7/63050589945.pdf
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/46234557152.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.com/data/file/75171634741.pdf
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/31629626748.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135340c7a81f---77668393851.pdf
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/vadolulesuwefukanesanuna.pdf
    • http://adfaveo.com/image/files/20210920_190405.pdf
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/famaxomevadob.pdf
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85605278072.pdf
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109250231591706.pdf
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/pufowixazub.pdf
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/digujegafefajojetigozivi.pdf
    • https://gres-k.cat/userfiles/file/42911528890.pdf
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/dexoga.pdf
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92370579074.pdf
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210924_0CB3BDFD89D27A76.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+ski+safari+mod+apk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b51f.bin
ec359bdd46a5e5389a4e0768377fbbbf10fd43477bb4718e5b9ac092e781099d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51F 10608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd56.bin
89701c0686b5816ff76eaa3fcaf648a917d04e35986a6362c1b83a2a4e36e01a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD56 15264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3e7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E7 16792 bytes