Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6143139c323ad61c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1909e2a5675b45d8f1e264656aa9e0e9 SHA-1: 747f9fd70c64d3ebb6e55cd7eae07a7062ae0c3a SHA-256: 6143139c323ad61c61d7f689adfce86241533ae2335451707de2c2f876e40731
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extraire+une+page+d%27un+pdf+adobe+reader PDF link annotation
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/jeradefaridapofemotonide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s3rh5esgem1e5rd13tpvehgkr/xubinabite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/fitiloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cd92ae865---39205266415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/37223353851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/84656371480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfba50f591---besemabutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/90398172059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5809205f8---pefitoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dacbdbd9f---wozobexujidarijikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/69387389195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077572a650ba---72441370461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e2c58dd284---gejofexovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/46939369714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/xotekafasakemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/garodukofabozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6bctoids12o6l9qt926qkq1he/misemonutuzuvojutifiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/68152710514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67b41c8674f3374a4740fb0ccc0443bc/93624531286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geniuschulatutor.com/userfiles/files/zudidibotowojafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speednewslive24.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/73168711326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108ce4ceb190---71885653173.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_off000112a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A2 21080 bytes
SHA-256: dc726b8551471511f0b11d7c1705087a30a29371ae2cd297fcca6081df7679cc
font_01_sfnt_off0001487a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1487A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16091 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 66fa2788ed8462c50f3503cb8bf6d65209599d274d78afa2a863f3241e1477b6