Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6abd9c7ac2e2adfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:17:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 78ce6aeb5543866d628b5b24665569ee SHA-1: 74e8f843108837fc48cb069b38365a56a50c0a1d SHA-256: 6abd9c7ac2e2adfc99595c2164111fceb3a9d89a54363bf01fb4bc69d904b208
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing unwanted software. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+rpg+android PDF link annotation
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/82097503392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/49100275140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/pamajabibujurexukarezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7307520968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloc-immo.com/images/rofetaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/lopasizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/63980853643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/kebomiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/vorarepozodipixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c299407751ad77479d561dcadd6286d/4467809253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613788887b05d---59275397272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60472757277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee0c261ec5ff10e3cde2f149ae34116/wofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylatoprak.com/userfiles/file/21866151755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/zidamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/pinigoxupavapobisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea975f3c01---25013834179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/41006935689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/solidajozome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/8188865401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawnraytech.985.tw/data/file/userfiles/files/79358386822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/wugasevom.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_off0000b2d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D6 10556 bytes
SHA-256: fc61cc11c55e80bc492469d7f8c1281cbb70c2fb86f3f4dc244eeb9c4fa4b849
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9C 14996 bytes
SHA-256: 1aff04ab41f8e2da827728555ca8a06fc7a32b9339c61c62e9c68d2227c9260a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1