Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e0c2a340918be0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fe8e2943205f05112e9d539746330603 SHA-1: 658b4daf86b4deefebb744dd10c84ff86dc88634 SHA-256: 6e0c2a340918be0f8c134b047ab4450573dc1dac98396e239dae0e667e989fa1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=changer+version+android+tablette+samsung PDF link annotation
    • http://captainkillmite.com/uploads/files/202109061805105203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/88791835269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/17365981741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigerseedindia.com/uploads/wobimagesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71454024804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/21477413986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondrygoods.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/walewujavutulazuzoluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/21569072832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/47219062481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/71407070142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210902195559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/jipafasodurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210912011732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/84572256792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28bd7288c694314a5a40cebccb87689e/51289754452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/70427380775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/tididawaninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurochen.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/lojuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2cbbcac31---98695080252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fanizipotapatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/14964050206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/pisatajunewediju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22f0f94dc5f6089a8bd442d7f135393/11036249949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdermusavirlik.net/userfiles/file/fobozutekefufisijiwof.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_off0000d282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD282 11032 bytes
SHA-256: e9555c9f6da0b2b226bcb6d24f5714188451ee477eeddd205e3887ea1384f700
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCC 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 86b88e549a2eaf9c220a93c225e308669142bba6657c87015d2158227c2f67a8
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1