Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a1e854fbbbb47a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:38:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 82922d1ea96e747103038aafa5c1c33c SHA-1: 9e0fdd7c76d41a82fd8253dbf64ccd3f3e16f36b SHA-256: 6a1e854fbbbb47a6bd6ba724708f8874b6887ba67b8a9d0c4d0e1dd963b4ed2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL heuristics point to a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/91752145060.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ec5a05f82c4ce2ee365d210706bdff/86222824740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/65315392240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/gewiravukipekajutikakulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/39991992251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/33813569694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/pisesorawaxajopesatuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/debedokujiwufidurunizaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/muwejonivagutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0252146001631134434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/55122481612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/mezefajamupari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/93078645398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthanhdat.vn/Images_upload/files/52340702747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l55li0e0j2ml61u34631a35g65/totamalofefisabumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/rovozizowuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210911_103708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/pomadarivujivifiseralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/80089256449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/tikijavubomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/lejederilezapopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/xiliduzotogizudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redengewinnt.com/userfiles/file/92159792753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/97409531702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/67236462381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/99273237108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6fjr2f6sm0dcbt5ntbflvdakg/bubezapeseregupuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+online+movie+mumbai+sagaPDF 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_off0000f9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AF 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 82ea0c4c6ac6fe738b7d4f6f9ef8a77ea902734e4e7c8f3f939e3320d1266e61
font_01_sfnt_off00012706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12706 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F1D 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 0affd96c67227d13839c6cf92e1712c3a0f1ddfe99c16afd7d29f2826e94ea96