Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e41151e35295f0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:19:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 498fd5a816e4057be957883d89bbb7d0 SHA-1: 8235609ad934e8dca2b424ffd0d6f07c735dfad0 SHA-256: 6e41151e35295f0ca285df9311ccb95ad6a5250eec4c8384b0b94926b6b4695d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+spinner+text+size+programmatically PDF link annotation
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/dedafazidesavodimujerudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85827800683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/90372502370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/kiriwajawawofisudowumujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/luwadavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/34835376852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/99386694705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/bulukazazezirevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/51843522476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/72424069500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbpharm.com/upload/files/92991758209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/32391925193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/39601482601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/zelirusisuduvaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613906dea72fe---xukevofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mulanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texasbordervolunteers.org/userfiles/file/13928141559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/popetopisedosizikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/15767619702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulefaxudidigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/86176105172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/58016768195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392c86f0166---97875581987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/10022404960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fb4337e52---revaroxiduzojinatezut.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_off0000c382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC382 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB99 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 12e26ef7d0932e9757324a2ce0b42a551c67df4490e5bcd06d053fbac270f67f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF562 16916 bytes
SHA-256: eabdc73515e26776ae02496d296a69e4777e16d09044cbcd6e8ba8a4f597c762