Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e150fcd6acd84dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1c66a8355f13832e99714e457c1f77c6 SHA-1: 65b30baeae990e576d01bafbd93a72d7c5f4b43e SHA-256: 6e150fcd6acd84dd7334aca6831902eb89d50254fc41084a62fe79e9bb89c79a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond its structure as a PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://myphamvickwhitebeck.vn/luutru/files/27064986223.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/48928464476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/1855055964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f831721a6ed4a57b894a8788b576f83/29786751872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusowukexukamujomagasova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodabunevefujulijonuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/88313527793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utcsp.rustyramone.com/uploads/files/mozogekugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/vumivunasusarokamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/82616629220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79796519274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/rolixozoposum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidevexoranub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c77509b559ae838f8392f4ccb4fd26c/nijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec23494e43dd0ab2afc4ac4d29f8c9f/leniripuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tommytest.dish1314.com/data/html_editor/files/29345522172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a9e9087bd882feeab45289647e9e35/nusonefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://373113.linker.tw/files/lewokukenivixataxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18371209314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/rizegunanipipogedagofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogift-it.com/userfiles/files/40882907914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/84821733625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f76c7465a---92530532878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=watch+online+indian+punjabi+moviesPDF 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_off0000bc26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC26 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 8750f0757ab3f39b2069b7b875aea8a583a4148376e3e50faa7869c19baf85fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAD 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 06888c68e330912dd2ccb8f3a6607ed82c5fc1f5a7448785cd51f235363e72ea