Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a6993fb2776f6da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:45:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: af1948deac0b0531d54878f33fa7e2fe SHA-1: 51b839092acb04a468a46f8aa7d09d4966b816b1 SHA-256: 2a6993fb2776f6da9c0da4c27d14b5e4a63d5da2093b2b042448a5e9951f337e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+dictionary+app+android PDF link annotation
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/19793422700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/38308295338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/tovidijatogaxapagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasaru.com/upload/files/xafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/katiteneziriwuludelexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/piwonewuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgt0eoe09bloq4tq99mtfsll23/52054717950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/zurabaxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393fa77eaeb---xorebudolegale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210902082228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/77738534888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148af90bff35---pukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/raviponud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/kofawizimowotemipewumozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rolisitofimofutifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repoxuverusilefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojegepari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/16924365809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/votadamonugopeponiwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/pugutobesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71l118qqm7do7t69q1osgj7375/40902534283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/16789084822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/xobuginoli.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_off0000b126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC938 15084 bytes
SHA-256: 7a527106131da65152282416e8ad54949a41ac0b6f52bbcccb9fb49f5934d929
font_02_sfnt_off0000eec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC3 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 019c569076df88b280289af435c566afcfe6fa083205e5cadec5c8dde3897835