Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aa8a5164315d11d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 07:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b4ef2c93d157d87ff073c68589d0bbbb SHA-1: 22f46c70daab8b111e436c6a3964fbb6c21b0974 SHA-256: 6aa8a5164315d11dc6ce96c38fb3f3d9ef1161cb3da46ff8b762a05a072ef91f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of a compromised CMS upload link further supports this, indicating a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blackmart+apk+for+android+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/60176918309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/56750621081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/3239473066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/berivamabozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/73119661834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82312588869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/70801402903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/64176895893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0646fb7b8eec9e8e68fb8c195ba8aa/zorejikemedijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/88306868796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade342fc718afeb48922a73edbf15de5/gagukezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klemanpince.hu/files/file/kugilimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datoxetewuteverasapakogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/filetejexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ce7561037---bobaxosibirozixumafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/zaxorufavidifowovenuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/xefunuduvajeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/larerigotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makeyourpartnermelt.com/userfiles/file/22105015642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/gewabamibepubugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/6495045729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/22494768831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/81821293218.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b1d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D0 14864 bytes
SHA-256: 7bda509e47484a8903d41d8c2cecf84ccb03c0e292d51cbe7cc972d7717157bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD726 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3D 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4f4fd2d301e8fcd333e4f8a3047da1cea395f9b52ae3681c97b1f5b96e35d6