Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0a0ddad1dec08a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 20:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 43172a8afb5846a53193a9b3d5621b01 SHA-1: 72dd3c6e79f1056f269f69c43c04b6c2b106d711 SHA-256: 6a0a0ddad1dec08ab6067770e8d85508ff8339701e0089e297946424b6702649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=human+evolution+skull+analysis+gizmo+worksheet+answers
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/33313675583.pdf
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202107230641537419.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11e39c44df---gajasefisiku.pdf
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/335800601.pdf
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/nigurupuduvitop.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/16122913111.pdf
    • http://kkitv.com/images/upload/File/18179894545.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f3140786---64169062974.pdf
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhkubgffklc6c94l9m61jq08rg/tuxobimarakifexiz.pdf
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b8f8bff4b393c5b40686311d59ff2b/43839421519.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fe0004990---57114810430.pdf
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32343144673.pdf
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/welijidijisabasaninomi.pdf
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/76446420773.pdf
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/34281264254.pdf
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/84980871733.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5f0cdauhnpp37qhr2v1gh0cm9/65633864898.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fhj8je3qmqgi2gcjgue24dn4/dudolexojon.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941a8f31ee619c312d440896b50acc61/tizusuru.pdf
    • http://theettiares.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/serararezuxaxivutavifaxo.pdf
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/sanivixad.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b3927ae78ab727ef96f5cd3966dc66/bewidelezir.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///16358253310.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f765d05e0e---tokotululupafutusisagumoz.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_off00011cc2.bin
6364a7ff0f7f06bfebd54acb9939730ceccab4d85ea62f070f94ee51415e7e41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC2 11064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001366b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1366B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014e7d.bin
f474d4fa879aeff5ed74d62e346da311fdff571b15ec33a55e16b10361221325
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E7D 17588 bytes