Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6acf7fb9cdc8e68a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 90488d938e4e07c2c6937c657a98b090 SHA-1: 28800404a919abf3f89ae82738c770d4ecf43d72 SHA-256: 6acf7fb9cdc8e68aeec2cb7ac6e06b982814d951f5597dbead5f7ad8ab77e513
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 are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=anime+4+you+naruto+shippuden
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/41599859156.pdf
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/xixatigebafizur.pdf
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150323_154404.pdf
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/rebex.pdf
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/46990983775.pdf
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/soxeranemusivid.pdf
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031fa43965949932d662f1d8e9305048/zitunolameva.pdf
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/60668294282.pdf
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/lebubitokuxawawawo.pdf
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46844616460.pdf
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/lalaxovinorofenurapokaf.pdf
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/64700467965.pdf
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/losajemofuwov.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkgr1na2bn675e92q6p4lnl0lq/50614236900.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36270799601.pdf
    • https://renewone.de/files/titakazeretijukotizotugiw.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/lipadinanid.pdf
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/36924287966.pdf
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/86461677097.pdf
    • http://www.sctiec.com/up_files/FCK/file/waboxifexebamataja.pdf
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/nunagovedadovuwuvixavewu.pdf
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210908190225.pdf
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36091222926.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e30bb7c9dd03c12237fd6b61fe3f4639/2788883370.pdf
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/68855713222.pdf
    • 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_off0000b7ca.bin
4d28fbea3584a8142433540044aaf8ff66c9929bd1aeeab1057aa6449dbc42d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7CA 10884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0d6.bin
df7f08d779c819c042173aba5bf2a541e7bfa8a1644d475314e0be8877b07d81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D6 18468 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010173.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10173 16792 bytes