Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca5db1e37b5d63a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6e4d97e5f6d00b38fa5bc34c8cdf8182 SHA-1: 8cced0a594143ed6da7aaa0ac1c5cc8a914080fe SHA-256: 6ca5db1e37b5d63a09634e22c14ef7e07f3c978ffb9649ae9f8c2955f26d4718
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on various domains, including some identified as compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shortcut+master+lite+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.eurosecurimed.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63651691898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/sonisobekupenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-09/064c0fd39846bd9a21075101ceec9f24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/reratawasuvodivugavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47026315332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/sudojavabavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzfcw.com/file/fkimg/file/foxufezawupitaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/mipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/11252670444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pascalparrot.com/uploads/assets/file/3582684793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b02f8b3ada---21215192290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/9980871598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/28989990281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/37703155918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gri5374a7ac5ofhp88f84ntop2/3535708922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9qeddhgt8qol66fnavrpd1i1/24320187734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/sovozapirakakinakage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/mabuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/bilofazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbdde938bf---28550546452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/28940317058.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_off0000d4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A9 18620 bytes
SHA-256: 81f5950b80b725438fba1e94e7c1429c63ab5fa9904a517ad60f6268eaa9b642
font_01_sfnt_off00010564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10564 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7B 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 0223a0d67b7d27eade3b67d166e5e50408e8c12ded5ed44740e442b9aa423b5e