Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a30160b33313f22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8620b56b14d60e39f2208b6534b18e99 SHA-1: 4d6c0db5dce7ab6c01a37cb67b1e25733375000f SHA-256: 6a30160b33313f224e5869c7ddac46c9f90f97ed3fbc341bacc25fdc62c60a18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to lure users to 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+android+launchers
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/24486438780.pdf
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/19909960564.pdf
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/lumetujututuriboredev.pdf
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/pifitevujurerisiwag.pdf
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87649394451.pdf
    • https://bellcera.60km.com/upload/files/lufavedofetogisazog.pdf
    • http://www.southpointinstitutehowrah.com/admin/uploads/file/filenufosove.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/dujedamigip.pdf
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/75487868404.pdf
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/9485488512.pdf
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/pirogovifefuvewirebef.pdf
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/xozemiroros.pdf
    • http://geonatlife.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redazusixugagewawawop.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fc75afe39---68278672246.pdf
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/45221026538.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18eb57be5201c21db2c317caa7d1fd90/wawozenosilan.pdf
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/59521282277.pdf
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojexamu.pdf
    • https://blogsma.com/files/92461190587.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144a77d2d5ac---23312540866.pdf
    • http://business-baltic.com/myfiles/dok/24934937251.pdf
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b6977d1d5---26643687758.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bdb9673be---watamulibikabosited.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c65f52936---navizexolerekirorukobux.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_off0000d871.bin
9ab0a526518407f49bdb7958da277d9bc3c43a5d87075ae763cc048642429a6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD871 10576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f06a.bin
df04738be3c0ab06fc53519ff42cb2248943d2b0f5789562e95d5a9c70040f90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06A 16788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b97.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B97 16792 bytes