Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6336460e19971329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 05:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7a0dbcc519bb8184cb5b271771705101 SHA-1: 9bc514e2d6474d5b1b297cd785a57d08d2e09f65 SHA-256: 6336460e19971329741c6d61f0f3b6b1e871d23c2be56c51dd9a05c615ca0fc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document uses a lure related to the video game 'Xenoverse 2' to entice users. It contains a significant number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, likely serving as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://abnicum.com/files/file/38714152021.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f03440889d---topezobuwubasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3cb600561---80274245435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d043de11be45ca323bd57ddc8f8a80c/tufafosipolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nthsv8pebfnlicle5tc5peh0l/xanudatadevozuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/dogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb455574b1811dd116c7f50765c2a249/73665362157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d6c134019---71480681843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f34149175af74eb24f3559880fcab18/nunigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/junobagazamupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/62725694019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce496c7ca0---jafemubeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32b07f691---denusoririmoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+multiplayer+in+xenoverse+2PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8C 5796 bytes
SHA-256: 3cdb635308c74000eafa520cbd815a95e45fd53dbaef156c8fa7695fde94734e
font_01_sfnt_off00010252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10252 5380 bytes
SHA-256: fc6e5e98499eaae9e8d11c1aeeea105672727f6165894e785f67ff86473fd799
font_02_sfnt_off000114a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A2 11792 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4ae489bfa0fa526fe12e01e18501c95e423214862bbe3e9eded7810fee8cb0