Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cde386e3803ace2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 70eb4fc50b83b7da6e46dc2f0a256a17 SHA-1: fd4139a95970b2d93b1d6b8c8c098f685b1a2e85 SHA-256: 6cde386e3803ace2828c00d41196ebef83ddbb7b104c2c6d9401c62139c0fd89
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious nature of this file, likely involving phishing or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/vuvexazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/88743368481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/kepunuwezaxupuzujeribek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aluminial.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwutuvanafomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/83761480431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukientubepxinh.info/gomsu/sanpham/anh/files/80288139523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/1351501080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momozijimuxuvebiveredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/81445209776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/pizebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/lupekamerurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/roperozuvuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukodulefajibetemokago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marine-inox.com/i/File/59008785304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9459c7861d8a310664faf4833717fb/wotujeduzojosijoxoforile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.situshoki1.com/contents/files/lometagatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/nogirafudaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78f7a4a139103a0eae464317e43c576d/fezexovediboreget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441425cdfec---zedasoduvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/37491771304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/gebiguzovixosilateduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/69201926189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashokarefrigeration.com/userfiles/file/luparuvizinolewozavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/87960099368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/rivalofesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=remix+os+x86PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E5 2060 bytes
SHA-256: 4cdd91f471f1bfec3f228726ed7bb20e7d09f6a65001974ac0200414d37add97
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 607155930d081a5bd3fd3081670a2b29a7a83eb2b607781cf89b7ea050d14748
font_02_sfnt_off000112a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A5 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 554970103b98035ca2255535f5f407e64ac2f69d12bb3da4e1e73cc52a59d4b6
font_03_sfnt_off000129d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1