Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6216f141de2b93a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-24 04:13:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 69e96992905f6cf7baea008b87a7c796 SHA-1: 53a986810c94622c9cd968ab931871efa512981e SHA-256: 6216f141de2b93a66e894234004b491208e54cf8b055cd5006f92e741817b9c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corporate+logos+2+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cc6f62ebf---fogutukebigedaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/90004962760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/37563177949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/45926746931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51219118754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3a73fecd60a1a4139c5a21e07131ef/baborotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhs1970.com/clients/9/98/98bceae81adeaace0f0761aa7b0d12fa/File/43974591953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6hj1qqneukjoc4bqe29ee9dgr/zegaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arfv6aaitldjpn45sso16707pb/lubukonixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/3760708486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hdfl70o975k1mpth874uvk605/79521438241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/woginuxevanejolidekumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/dupijemuxeniboxufumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715c6b7d1ab---42100500356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C1 5116 bytes
SHA-256: eeb7f9904be971d5462c77f459ef774550bf06e68675c5d71d18c829afab2404
font_01_sfnt_off0000f648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF648 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad878a42b512ead0b7765356bd084b647613c2b49eb9d77aeccdc4f0ad65bf3