Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6112eb5c63f33ae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 55fb3948ab3360001fe5ac0be205b1e5 SHA-1: 6265da4c19df7932d37ccc0fb843692c1846e9be SHA-256: 6112eb5c63f33ae9c265b2c8ea6773ce126ab51e9c3ff5c6da44541b37d90c47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting services. These links likely serve to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection, ultimately leading users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/voraradinutokifonuwupuvas.pdf
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/muvoripumisifadamek.pdf
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75044637810.pdf
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/jogisijazewutoxiwazutaw.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/58436671869.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/xezarimebekurebod.pdf
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109100953586618.pdf
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/41793236488.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e86f220ee3ee0104fa48e7ee76cdda7/34017657240.pdf
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/fuxazerasupilagakunanukug.pdf
    • https://gesema.com/UserFiles/file/jitisivozovabezositen.pdf
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/nidesaguw.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613612bf78126---vizasadovorufo.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d08746d39ecd0d6997adae5d734c20c/54800056955.pdf
    • http://ilink.pl/userfiles/file/57611167252.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613418307ad68---xatujikodafijulafibepi.pdf
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/tolozikapufo.pdf
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/zaravudomenupepi.pdf
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/68362399802.pdf
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/21676232812.pdf
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/58384275943.pdf
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76388461167.pdf
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/62004648104.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+jones+boulder+planetarium
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddc4.bin
22dad78ab89c9dbbbc7ba3480279e41a166b551f62700518038715fe8e6d2d6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC4 10904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ecd.bin
48bcc62914ec9f28a40172eab03e8665ad141a5c72a51b70b2852c470396daa8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECD 18280 bytes