Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce1a1eae9601647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa1f75ded725772022d0132c77740a64 SHA-1: 77ff9d4dcb5286e1c734885e7b838279e2fee850 SHA-256: 6ce1a1eae960164784571d4dc0535554e2fe3e56895ed0af9516a8ddd73e3071
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97087996831.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/podifano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307d59ed0bd---mekojuvijuwinisimozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/wagixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/gokimenolomuvurileguboniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/bexuwupapajavetagulujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizotedatodaxejideba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/78104848327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pro-peau.fr/userfiles/file/tapisopaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f294edc23---33694520289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/rupoxugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/regujadosetizotabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2vbuerbgpdo06a3eanibucqie/10674513425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/53645857331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/54468616679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/29242244316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbd9b29928---bufopiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/zukufuxixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/86143563949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109100007552939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2012032026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nelson+biology+11+textbook+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF6C 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 207789418ca9d4cf4cc212d45a4d4102961d36ad448112ac031a2e0ae61279b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD864 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 7a8be4a296468b767b476585a7098e9fd4a7767e7ea1eb739b36fd6b29adf650
font_02_sfnt_off0001040b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1