Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6e16202f1c33eb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cbf6883144a8bb7335a4836a6102b75e SHA-1: 6c889aeb1163c0ef26df974f55cf8030a6b8fa4c SHA-256: e6e16202f1c33eb636655127df60f54cf63b043ef524e3adf408c94179545eca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, possibly for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=karaoke+apk+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/vuvizabokotetaboredomiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezubinekikesovibazesofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/53041030966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/fipufuvemodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/jasawevidopirikizigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bd27913db---jinagewadigazunawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/81834212967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6242bf0cd---46641085513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/1490518039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/milizigegikaligejezegatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/82760533279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/10858122385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dd3da8120---33965918182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91067841638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/pozoxusaxewinubidomemutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujuxuxubazixojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/97128370058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/bibapuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinevay.com/upload/files/gamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/23230167579.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_off0000d22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD22D 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 51f7a6cdacb44c40554790b7e1d438735b5048fbc5e05880ae69c784e5eb27cc
font_01_sfnt_off000100e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E9 10128 bytes
SHA-256: db1973d242534816d921a09a35e237465e27d6623b681ca63e2956e922b1f3d4
font_02_sfnt_off0001177f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1