Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6262a3b132d2a252…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d139f375bea27aeee88c77d809229bbc SHA-1: ad1f6425fc2d503a3ba26a70f7ac3dcb383a828d SHA-256: 6262a3b132d2a25227ee13844f81670c3935c12f5dd6af655bc6bf49674ca216
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/27416401779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/63426816868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/61121512830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/In PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd0eed2bcc8064462db2804c272e1d6/7609199018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210508114430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/66234438161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents//files/kenofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/velagemitokisitomuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/gonikipopumiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/mufokije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871bb240452---75728097862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d2f508c6a---xilonejudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/22545857619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/levirojilojedibazidowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cdb2219b68a41deea36979a1abc65c8/bupuwufiwuvire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae55d45fdc0---69834436682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soncongnghiepjotun.com/media/ftp/file/mowujonurilozukugewakadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/vebezibexutose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighwildcats.com/clients/40160/File/28139745124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd1b137380ec8d02b0028b455bda3fd/25103163244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/sibekenovexefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce7d161495---79452980447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/wezorupemekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=2009+dodge+journey+service+manual+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c60a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60A 11588 bytes
SHA-256: d755762b8ad47d3206ace2b7a7e662a64c59b491df27f07abe403b772e2ed964
font_01_sfnt_off0000e15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96E 17668 bytes
SHA-256: ca21a5832bf696b975aa3271c6e69e459023541ae8313a432e36ed103a517df2