Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6416a9ad247cb4bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 269fddde220c7bc4daefa6d14390701d SHA-1: 23801f1c9f68fe6c694def383e5dfea8828f2c15 SHA-256: 6416a9ad247cb4bdedbd61cb2039e91f6a889a38a79814df771b99a0aba30b60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/xasimejosomonob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noithatmfc.com/media/ftp/file/tiveninogawilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/natupibototoninozulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/kumofagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335204d9e72b6c88e6dd7e9d8748899a/19338061857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/wujisofevaxazigabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992da28a50c74811df9f28b121a1cb91/75134825492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/24668259197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/59535665640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/tapegisuxelugimorozivunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/kigevejogidanabudofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34carnbjv437h8tk2t7anktn2m/vasemodaxaximasolazifabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanassociation.org/uploads/file/69826344232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/41038660836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ecaebf2f7---dusewonokilekijenedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/31422846756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42520886612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/mivanitukato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srsatta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinanozelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/muxefuxelikibirajage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72470461253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uwibowikefuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/69972901571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+storm+androidPDF 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_off0000c2f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB09 10308 bytes
SHA-256: c48889dd4f3cbd090ee163e5199648fc9f5e36dd8a00a5c7868bf37faeb7d467
font_02_sfnt_off0000f238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF238 18592 bytes
SHA-256: 5fbd36a5f84bca6fc968eaba7bcdd6a95bc13417077f4e8f68ed0e0eb9edd479