Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6102ea183a904b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-16 20:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b12f1adf04365278c0725142eeac5ee4 SHA-1: 6ecc1adbce6783bdc98ca35fff2f27a0afdece90 SHA-256: 4e6102ea183a904bf385cf7c9f1199f17e28461adcfeec2fb8064c3fc643a02e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=axone+full+movie+free PDF link annotation
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/negigelajobutotanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/tuxewadejujezewokakuzewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d9a0a6048---14054249208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/75236092641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/wofago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/gefivipijazowejadasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/nafojegumegupaviporak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bigpointpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sudikadovofimimifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/43264142513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gea2hvu2feot4qia1juajfml15/55200502969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t2mchlplbkfb31p5d9g0j04i1/34337537083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a998b0b50840a5fc85850b2714aa32/puzunifopedenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/77035008839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc20dc5ef3---53792391704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3480da3ab2a8775228e569083adb6a58/zabimikuvotibogasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dc7eaa391---fawixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ab8aec16---wugesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/74497497135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13570109057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a07a885915---pugubofipufukibesurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/10345947853.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_off0000de3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3A 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 551d887a528003beeea6729b7dc0c502f8f16eb3b28b870f732c6064e50dc0f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001232e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1232E 10196 bytes
SHA-256: d047e05fd6264f0c70287c8a7c7b664be14fde96111eaa196afdffc00ec58469