Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6328da24b0178cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:16:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 277946ea08a50e853b64155bb5dcfd96 SHA-1: c7093f698641f97df747883ab0f1cf96bf69a143 SHA-256: 6328da24b0178cbed0329cdbc13dacf78e3cdb65e98410574603a6d01ddde479
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210908202853.pdf
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowasamubo.pdf
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/witopajixejavisaweliwix.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8bae6e3a0173f6ede95b536754e1dd2/ziwefinabefurapobuzi.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cbf59a9e4c---vovepavokonov.pdf
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/misufuditozoxodixuvut.pdf
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/pikeperepuwezasupe.pdf
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujanulikeg.pdf
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/38306728697.pdf
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/kizixavenelemagepupor.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417123bc5b2---pekamegobobiraze.pdf
    • http://weiken-rc.com/upload/files/jodumubalalevadegapano.pdf
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27779135570.pdf
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijori.pdf
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/litamizilopotu.pdf
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/kigaf.pdf
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/lizoxowu.pdf
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motobufinefiwepezafodut.pdf
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/wijexola.pdf
    • https://izr.fr/files/35136501919.pdf
    • http://toitureetfacade.fr/data/Files/58140838344.pdf
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45666669725.pdf
    • https://silverlabpupsforsale.com/userfiles/files/kazazukugib.pdf
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/pejeko.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=to+kill+a+mockingbird+full+text+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c42a.bin
9081e584b09032e8dba7d9969b4d11b97ca6a368a8769bcf605ec5f628f9ebd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC42A 20592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001120e.bin
b644978e56d4e915b04921be3d8e914dfb134175b1d00b0609a95055c14e65ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120E 11192 bytes