Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a6601223e73d46d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-10-04 04:59:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6a007f280df97eea5f4ad57d6aa2e3e6 SHA-1: 62cb1a418f753b09a9fa51772e31a66c3d74c576 SHA-256: 0a6601223e73d46db20beb838f0018185f6e8e0c2182f9c464259851afeb09f4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vaccines+are+made+up+of PDF link annotation
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/zasosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/xixadifejososugeluwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca4dfca278cef0cec118d916fe0c39a/mexapapixowatevugeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amunt.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remowidixerodujapixobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa5efba152cc500ad145e7aae550ddc/lejabilanisunexexuganujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/29684222242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kevafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109210535516832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b82f2920d05d6d3ad67d60d168d839/19101007793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/45060627093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/54931041462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/97018073157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f4b2cabf43---19728772310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18737617332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/55700168098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/29479957600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/38858012264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/lobetozexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/3903334644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theipbuzz.com/images/file/dodamexeguwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70585179250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/27663565740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/96370201573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacittadivignola.com/userfiles/files/nuwuzitagadimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-sub.com/userfiles/file/35326756313.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_off0000b560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB560 14696 bytes
SHA-256: 184b3b839e9ce74815929b5fb17417e974b15088072775c63bc2a39932a09675
font_01_sfnt_off0000da4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF261 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 7816bfaaec0b239d908089336d7902ad4099b409cd30ac5c9e196dd4609a53d3