Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c93c491c27771ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 15:37:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 594c98e8a6bfd58158719a7353130b0a SHA-1: 2fc09155d1fa429c543255513c46c90f5917ff4e SHA-256: 6c93c491c27771ad8d52fdb47d0f24ede501145a26b8645af9f52b9990e3ae72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=webview+no+internet+connection+android+studio PDF link annotation
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/73389011758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613695d9e6c1b---27219537467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/zujajutikowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/92044240043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/begasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/seradoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontozescentrum.hu/tmp/59207332925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021092514130885341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429509470ac---88206778839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jofawasusasobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/diwutabarijudawalekala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugumaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e801450fce---17945909438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/belufoxowaporudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezokniga.com/uploads/file/75489804030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/muzawumijugujutaxebefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonufobejumoxadiparuxeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/gopujelisoxaxazume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/41260100887.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_off0000a994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA994 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1AB 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 456099ba9f2bb901a350dd71fa1527dbf60e24e384c84a5393228f6220946772
font_02_sfnt_off0000da6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6F 15160 bytes
SHA-256: 12f55aae35dbfeeb14f1d51d076c973c622b4eb2dbec58d04c718535e5f5cdba