Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6601af728068daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:28:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 924113faa4ca2a157ace95b8f842279c SHA-1: d2ab1abd4106e38a48559789e6f1a69d97b0735c SHA-256: e6601af728068daa65a09994c63baa6016b17e9bba946234ec3983d037856e35
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised hosting sites, and uses a lure of a 'bank job solution book' to encourage downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to distribute a secondary payload or facilitate phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54077864307.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3caffe318ce7ebababd353c4c249f80b/69580186561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jshbt99o1g42kamalq0ja98ih/tujilevolasefetonepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901c0067fb5---gafivaxedofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/97694592522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2488293722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/zivimiwelabevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949564b5b17---3727107883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/sonolonobapilojuzexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb7629ef41---digunefumirapetimari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/3475445479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/xisodejeradeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkf10t9tk8guh2vjjkt0kd841a/84009975748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8235be2a3---safidenosopugupiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079003914c15---13607501267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fd0e42c14---45879015536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/47476445647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f72e66a8312---texubifoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/lefixonudamubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julozadamesemijuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ac25620318dbf2fcc34e4328c8e00e/zuwuzujivisosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/lomujewenotuvugexipomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwodeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bank+job+solution+book+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_off0000ce93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE93 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 7e884fd0933d368dabe3b96fcb558cfb765ed35a0808ecbde08b8094dd291464
font_01_sfnt_off0000e743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE743 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF55 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8ae5131f355547300911f62d6b6517b5d4743bcb0d723a3ddf732a4fd812e6