Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ada204ae9aced84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 822465c73ad08947cb8144f1fdde7e0b SHA-1: a66fe6d4629644e31b9c6d17c32591e99ead81b2 SHA-256: 6ada204ae9aced841fa04936ca9625fa2f11a81abf5331f321b89e7dc5b506a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that leverage embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911134510593242.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1865453030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1631615889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westpakusa.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/4988191763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p64vav0k5jhte3fctilomq58k/62170233614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/26243845136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/26343743558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbdf593102---86538962883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf121e508d1970ea6d29264f6b5220f/55638728616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe97147878120edf52add64d0fd4a447/jaxavomuvakakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/2130854436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387e3a6bc95---zewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/56548503772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/20511551922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66361790086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/74012467989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/tovugekewalumove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/nujosovawemufokokepujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/24222663833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28133322423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/vofanitomedamali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--23-6kci4asohe8k.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/54962288174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varowotodeboxetafixutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26969143104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/dividedurosijaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/vagokiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a62j5ic2hco1fj8mvv4uvnji3/pobabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=best+apk+games+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A5 17284 bytes
SHA-256: dae696316501e861c2531f53d2b57e8aea047d0ac653d9e2ee8dc9e67236055d
font_01_sfnt_off00010f29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F29 10776 bytes
SHA-256: a1ad5e7b7c1d1da97fcfc21046d2693f938628986ba6c98bdd7261a02322f600
font_02_sfnt_off000127e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1