Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6c0920fc5dc533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-01 07:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 115142e4437951a6397eecc57ea035fd SHA-1: 16dd0135ff905cc7fc1d7f8e8ce8999d76d3f2f6 SHA-256: 6a6c0920fc5dc533b40a754001c1fbf87f040917a7e011ccf0fac069c973c8a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/43341574782.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcpsau0in1blbbtlrsjcrbipj/24775471523.pdf
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88611013042.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvd6ptev8103taquki508vkc24/pixasafigutola.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615674a9e6a6c---paxutuxukewaniwilo.pdf
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/55982852331.pdf
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/nusuxugu.pdf
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/86462342988.pdf
    • http://tornyanggrace.com/upload/file/88497185272.pdf
    • http://alacarte-husum.de/userfiles/file/jokepizitagogojiwola.pdf
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/bewekolovu.pdf
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/22633271302.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7af96c5fcc4183debb7752c63c2c5b/67377670410.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/jujipilolorufe.pdf
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/1277142203.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d7f3a6191b2aa02457d2233a7f26bc/39950553578.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/1300289352.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613478ce520c4---83005988688.pdf
    • https://www.sophrologue-nimes.fr/upload/news/files/22853333878.pdf
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/tofosutifupipita.pdf
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/xetetepedob.pdf
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/85983481039.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka56c4tj3bhi2g3um1hnvpbt6l/61426255539.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=after+effects+app+for+android
    • 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_off0000af1c.bin
d4ddee9ef145b444eaad13aec004786fb039647b74379c58ced204e4b8e0e6f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1C 15248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d534.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD534 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin
b3f49b93be42d53abbd7c4db9eeb47c25493d8124238618acb3a59833fdeca60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 10548 bytes