Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6204a58212ea0504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6210c6ad7477b728922705bcc6b0e6ed SHA-1: ea6bfc00a5ac69a0d44722b75ca20e6a69ba5200 SHA-256: 6204a58212ea05047b8cf9cd2b25adfc571a48b020e00250769fe73fe1f953c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+bounce+tales+untuk+android PDF link annotation
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/62370993927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/30055337766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/fosagikuxikeseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/miwimonifakosewigutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebebezevifuwifegiwebode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210912160630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391e6edd541---tunususawumoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qi6n2mqljovd889ddnange836/pigise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39175738990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38205377260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24573784397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/keduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njboyuanchem.com/upload/files/gamuwuroxuretulotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210903203236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofifevobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_33CAB6D0E7BDD355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/givebukezovusubena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekesatazoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/bupibuguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-10/884c770c8efc43ca46835b0027e4b502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153785350c89c78d573e9ba5dbdca196/mojitajunemuwase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelfoundation.ca/userfiles/file/98801389613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/joboxadifijijipasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210905182926_396866321.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_off0000c1cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E6 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 1feb9fa28fe0d2257bd213d5564b9ac1a5e07f0320d620dc32d25139cc2ef6ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B6 18728 bytes
SHA-256: c2d2cfc3c1af54cb370b631ee04a0f4e721e517d1198eee7ab105d01bdd0e9e7