Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e6139ac21ef1094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 21:56:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c60521ea569498c1ba957f8519212f99 SHA-1: 4075f5653f69e37937919fd31505acc177c27796 SHA-256: 1e6139ac21ef109442ffe653d4c29d102e4b54ff6d9c565f47aa1ae6c44a252a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be part of link farms hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The heuristic 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic for malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+mean+by+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/38187195248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109040046418918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///55732203852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/tiviwevagadexukinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/tijakajozojobupuvurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/25908406489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///kunetobenutinufubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/xisapefabezesajegejigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065ddc5647---vemujagotejujuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/derobuxobasuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4kfcpr7sdq01d4bfksv07o8t0/33424538112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b8caa059f---sivopifika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176fd0f08666affed850e09ac504c77b/wotamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajapunimakozaxalobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/mulilofupomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/kipopesilerorawuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/88936443377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/xivezubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/tajejuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/70937501537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/fitezobovefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/xodakilanikonofupelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/8923908315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a8f79c605---nuvijagutawibusisosomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/xivomizivabilotog.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_off0000d5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BB 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 339c0dd311def1acd85908361e7169334dc2db9c5b209b444deac54d3855d3d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10294 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAB 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef8e76ce9fddd73449d4854d7fe93892bb39fdb19e63265001915f337335d87