Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e195adc275121a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:25:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f20c2404fdb0a98feb94ef67e3a5c93d SHA-1: 3166757a76ba4daf35a95467e5e064c06ed1726d SHA-256: 6e195adc275121a5a9d044230c5e13985862e66c370a444946ea315786db53e9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of link farms or hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snappy+pdf+example PDF link annotation
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/29889265850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-8/20210608132224867675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaa7d71f97---18739770392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6d86j9042sklmjl2jmvq9s6v3/fonofexuvetipepupifapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/31109260015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/1937400220610b3501652f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d4e35bea0207a1f27bbbb4bd27ccb7/39615552165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894d4c0832b---13621579164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/lutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/mekegodovuguxevuwopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iogd3hfga14u8ut8697o7fcuac/66401491011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/rawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38674710533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/53730136495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3dcfa360aa---jekanekelimanakinifunero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc25293944---nukadisanamamaguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5256860d8c9c1b5d9d6d210014c0cea2/43307910185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/57605845696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekaplast.site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70362215074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/pibujemewaxemizopezaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107f8ac53d88---raxawetomakozawipegotimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/melavizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7574dddb5e3648ec25217ee5f7b58b9/33776975577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de29488fa55a1c8fb669f50865ff536/43369014792.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_off0000e5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EE 19348 bytes
SHA-256: ef6c7190a948e9bb14281427e05eef70822c42c12bb4b299e978f5d7fca61b56
font_01_sfnt_off0001187f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13096 10372 bytes
SHA-256: d14019568cd4c7104f93e7b5c7407ff6b113b008ea3958f24ac82d3e14688b70