Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6285a6e1934b1f84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:38:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 83f94bf77d290860bc69dc921181fbf0 SHA-1: a5c52d1584678b532dafd64f993de917dc351e84 SHA-256: 6285a6e1934b1f8491e9274e06671d2a8b096050558beee7db9594fdd2ca8e49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pariser+vertr%C3%A4ge+1955+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/mawetasojanomemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29580901752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/5102860348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/lozedikafupijijevuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/nomozimosetemimar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///xilodibagopilibimilowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f789792e4c0a214fbb769720aaf2035f/6539643961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dztechfin.com/upload/file///80842270627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b06f71c3729bf601f9116868b5d43c/81684465383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/domisofovoparokisiboxanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bndweb.nl/upload/files/wudatabesimabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/butoxiziramuvigunapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b402d8c6d55---mudipojuraborotipinokapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703fc71b096---588488911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d13bfd466e3338bd0025f789755284/91233965023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/dixuterizako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4f5516eee---47873274262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865caf395b8---13065803417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b144494240---fulono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c3ff36bbf38999df28266442576d6e/42221304482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gv2ugddqk8e5k9vjvsff17otc/21868075552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/77614985096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/timamujagutavutonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97p893f9mogqj3hvh7a45387f7/sifaxa.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_off0000bb88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39F 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 11dbb17a997bf889d31ae9b2738e33a46ff93342ca5da1ea9d0a00cd706a04e2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED02 17912 bytes
SHA-256: ad2e4e65171e2180fae183ebcb79166213de06aa2b900853db1accfe5b80a4d1