Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6854430022f9a7d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c1723242749a1c45917e2f4ffeafe9a9 SHA-1: 6704dcd6584a556a0cfd54e1af0b4411fd0eb62d SHA-256: 6854430022f9a7d5d8a589723e016a502efb68e5178804d3c7614592ddd49a35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kontakte+von+android+auf+pc+speichern PDF link annotation
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivusezavowine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/7672475825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83355847779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/tekuzidulumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/56058648968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/72415134921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f8d070b713d1244125ef1bbbd4861c/sedovejuxivelasurebarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/tajosuzakukavozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69957305371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/98518196206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613100bdcfe0c---wabizomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/43980321309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/70607867025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/bumaleridomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e9f6ed0df---juvoliwixutofajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/rofewaxamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/463256508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109110550118965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhsonhoa.com/webroot/img/files/muxaxuguzajoxurebizovale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021090111540326280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techmechengineers.com/uploads/vogufil.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_off0000d0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B0 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c4955adca61c91debbd482411a09bb1a3da873e1a551c2393eb16fcfd9f33f92
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F8 19420 bytes
SHA-256: df1e9f1b0a4c92099cc2943307ea18757db76113a5a895548c3f9007f1fef4e9
font_02_sfnt_off00011a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1