Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06adc8de7411f251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9a93c85ac58206ac14a1ec028bea43ef SHA-1: a2bf073776b968c633a30f8ef51c28a5bea04fc3 SHA-256: 06adc8de7411f251d3f2ce14e316e8bf288dbdc352a07329cecc7729384e7c53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards the T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) technique, likely leading to further compromise via the linked sites.

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bipolar+disorder+criteria+dsm+5+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hintzfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/12/12a2788c5de59b93c87e4eff35998d4f/File/lapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612768fa88d7c---75463988332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/zokokoxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a2d1e2fb4---sepuxukezebipapitili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fef02a564f---vurowesovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masatepafekevovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/75762943281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/gozexovalukupujefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44019972889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/57029755314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/bemezefofemeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/zokidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53800127420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/76902470767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/15629974236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca3b862980c6ff19af297d8d95a8be1b/99340478314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/zegotadaxazexuwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/96289440132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/vaweborugumozasikewani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/21080711032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7b548945e4397a8398429cb48f6b17/79491947085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1b59dc33993de82f8362af442c0ec36/20068119463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/lepigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/29812211135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9053b99f33e6b3a2740f9743cf4311b6/ligod.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_off0000d6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AD 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 291b98977092918f1b65c480356738b5324b3f9e9e7404417d0b8f4733c7f283
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 7b80a1cb53d50c0769376814657e4d5305be9353862f6d8eaca8b3dc476eb0e9
font_02_sfnt_off00011c7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1