Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6de9e5eda3747ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 02:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f4c6aaf52eab63a106d9fc70461c0d82 SHA-1: 48b39de8451219065b49e0249cd889fc479f606e SHA-256: 6de9e5eda3747ce9c1416f9fb9b322460b480f4231a12cbb283e8d4569e197f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure for downloading movie content, likely a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute harmful files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=india%2527s+most+wanted+full+movie+download+filmyzilla PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufugevopenurudodixexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1a344100ec460f84de75cb4e26778c/92917018340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f56b5b4687---niwonawamugasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/29499169344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/goviketudalugijewivafifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e1465d217---gimipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d3e9a0a6f---83284418440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/42212981221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/65152262675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cs8vvdnnqqk2e71rc81kgqml3/wesipusexumuzemagera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719d8d51efb---72496223450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cae6253b4368a0d46cac53c5a7d977a/11826548439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/63175957571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873b17f69864b89dd87b5218d736d58c/ramemevagilikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harvestrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bfe652955e6b1093d2252ab764cf608/96184466239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc20dbabad---36157605363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886129c9e7d---68958480691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE570 5232 bytes
SHA-256: ea21c963f0909cd19bf91749c03fa0c441aa17efba295a97e9fdb8ca53bedfc5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75B 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 02d3a43c5dc9b8029f6544338cdf59f5b24da3e5333465ad918823f4488b5587