Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a39d5bc7bdafa8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 00:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c8830eae745abda5281cd2d003d178ac SHA-1: 93c26094325974ba58dd4b6bb6159393d37bee21 SHA-256: 6a39d5bc7bdafa8bba28cc4973879b8431d446b896f972dd9da5b9a7a17cc109
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, masquerading as a download for 'Telugu movies 2020 torrent'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware or visiting phishing sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=telugu+movies+2020+torrent PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkrf5681upmihbtrc0km17h242/65753498850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6415218282---7290248419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092523280bd4---mupozisavadoxaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/26564971153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17aaa429793daaf3fdddbcba9712a9bf/89479845160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609303e0dc195---33889110997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d020c25f50---vewesojika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46b1d52365---77597647927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d69e40a10a---vumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/robazoraroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b39034619855fed0c271b5103d0e94b/fagubifotutanagugozumeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5e769265c---diwozosubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc2d0b30d9---jetoforibotinotowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/misirivumibelagalagobipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/18231028544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0001093f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093F 5080 bytes
SHA-256: d74acebfcb8578e36cb9a2580925117ea1cd041535aca6cac94f2b6a480b990f
font_01_sfnt_off00011a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A82 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 888aa91b7182b858b94d097337e92ba24b3220e9c6c771f0394d98e201a7638d
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD0 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 4bd16c8abd39118228c1571b0005d4eb3b3e943e572fd92a2a80cfcb7b749349