Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a9dabd3d9ffa582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:27:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0bdde26e30799cdaf9e66a3497663421 SHA-1: e1d98e750e1e73c12bfca312f8666562db22c7bb SHA-256: 6a9dabd3d9ffa582b9c7716c9fb2ade48c86baee8a07247a77e2cc62b52d9fb5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple external URIs were extracted, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm behavior is indicative of an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/jolilap.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac5a88d1ba5b54f2cea3f9f2418bc6f5/40664713720.pdf
    • https://inifd.london/uploads/file/51195446028.pdf
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/10462713769.pdf
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/busarilizobufez.pdf
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/11392848806.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/kasinimiwamuzen.pdf
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_3880F87B29CE2EA2.pdf
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/68919054425.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcq1uum7qbc2vcem7f9086mh14/77161234723.pdf
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106231430041179.pdf
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/fifekejigolerugako.pdf
    • http://enerjipiyasalarizirvesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca83562b25---jegafubenuxenufow.pdf
    • https://quaint-house.com/36310425498.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a9c70db30---notibumobunibiminukanore.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d941a0467---88068137568.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41315795477e8ab2d418e52c87e9c1b6/98188041260.pdf
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/27987208722.pdf
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/11298497897.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s09fb971q2ggucf6rc8rshkd2/81548041157.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87f2cdfaa5db110a304f33304898362/95906561352.pdf
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/motatafefonexafixagunomur.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64106834649.pdf
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/zaviwoxik.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=red+pickled+daikon
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eccb.bin
081d6c624b8aae5db8950ec0b0de3bb31d033e7e2d02fd395224491eaf60d8fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCB 10276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103f7.bin
26f42d18eb9e9a7b3faf8c52083a70953468c0543347de3549c17ff696fae5a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F7 17444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013176.bin
e6e9c4f9d7a68f2ad42b4a1d6b0d9829cccc3cdabfa956f86059492056d22f9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13176 2644 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013c9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9F 16792 bytes