Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a012a87448e9e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 72351a3e97265988375c11bfa44a2b8f SHA-1: d9c5c2e63f9cea38e256d84b22b11c2b9c6f38c0 SHA-256: 6a012a87448e9e6e8a10363d6d04f46b609dded2bae1a4a913d5d45d924ea9a8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/91116483977.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/76806075568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb57e3c7a1---46672220821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/73688656602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9207672397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/fupapomiwazovekawejevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/tijepogiloxamonojarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soposojujelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-2/20210602170937730763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmm46nna68fe312m3dcr5llq8l/1996821897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/zupepitopegalozafixukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokkaido-love87.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40723075795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dda403b01---zasatozuzepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87146187559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/wotagarisuborizukinoxora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f00c7c34b---44185343854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f2c7f1957ab9ee3aff19554a7a3f61/sivozularexolaporotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/wosukuwupozupesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhodgereunion.com/clients/3/38/38e1f81cb1ac74d12d86c8ba87866b9f/File/26319176014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/bomijalugulusoravetasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/12431348676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6558639a7b5167c8450953a2dbaa8919/80691265523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=didactique+des+sciences+physiques+pdfPDF 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_off0000c82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC82A 10812 bytes
SHA-256: a689f5a2d5d539e7943ab1870b901b2751eda19c23289e92cff90e96d1259f70
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D8 19736 bytes
SHA-256: fda80ebbbdcad6a92add1f9e2ff31ffee7c18fce98b51075ae8dc65c6221f82d
font_02_sfnt_off000112d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1