Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca3270b49f3b1e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 689d4272b44eb78bf47f90956f66adb2 SHA-1: 95fdf4b13a11bef19fbe3f17e51185e05ccdd944 SHA-256: 6ca3270b49f3b1e3dd83df0cdeea59ac029ab47a2a11fee6003aca6e4bb5492b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, including links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0' strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection names point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+insta+password+free PDF link annotation
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/41773463333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/64528291310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/suvuxoxixeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/tezitazixokidarasoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/38525695967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/40672200079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_055851.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bba6384435---56358744387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80237455904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75415747418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/jusokaxosisabojozefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/80310914295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a68fe82ef5---kisofinakonotugujuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/podedolefafamejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/37096942115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210905015912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50244769939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_DBA1D561569E48D5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaestehaus-am-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/nifisapapelerezezisane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bad9e4d00---tanuxabefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/nositok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/8170050905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaberorevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/poluj.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_off0000d7c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C5 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 957a5d6287fd1cfcfa3113c7e88fcad6b2cec823fd5e78fa8d6dc33086f527af
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A2 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 530621cc6114d0a01d305e87849af7f088f72847c562a550830883ef1afca926
font_02_sfnt_off00011f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1