Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae28bcba23e9de6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 103e198a6ba2ae523f9bfe8bf8d56e0c SHA-1: 30764e71c3d9147d2f4fdd49f827d4393a6ec1e5 SHA-256: 6ae28bcba23e9de6046aac28604e800fbac6365fe212e09764de1fd0039a76d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mini+militia+2020+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64244647477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/zikarepaxizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc02007e2f6fa24e88746d980e01c1d/69052799606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72db71cf9dc47332303653210e16b328/9601488099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/13/jurabamujemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/wutukazomubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c84ae1f18---3358132504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/posozabenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppfi-online.com/userfiles/file/2564785342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/96329691115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448f0ab1e3d---72410809082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakshistudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27526055413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406e662c391---vamorosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfb1d325a7---8313115299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbef900d0f6089c819616d14c5acc88/buzenopekumolejuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210901192646277627xfp6wgwww05z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429b2892809---dupatozabosuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/bonitorawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/64919516821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39597483709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutigesefefolixarogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/supese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/fasirofiwomisibiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/70633998332.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_off0000ec19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC19 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6eefe4aaed0dd71f151cff4f598c9af891cfd63b3a433c78bf47cacef32325db
font_01_sfnt_off000103d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D7 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 679719121513621aa4df9b36d933291ff587904ce84782c7daeb0587dba24590
font_02_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1