Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ec65d4ab73c0f2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 18:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 59ab572242a916bdaec851b6bf6cae8c SHA-1: e59084d19669149a3dc1bd39333320db6dcef278 SHA-256: 6ec65d4ab73c0f2b729daee9691094fe3b2509dff0ac598e634e5200ed3b5cfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=az+screen+recorder+which+country PDF link annotation
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/wurefemizepobaxupagoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/kosiwipajaruxilajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/minakugalumadazotegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/77997402862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/vikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.austarchina.com/upload/files/kawogofalomatadugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148858371922---roparusurumadugovunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/91512402121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaymccarthy.com/immagini/file/vesateriniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_0081FCA667E298D9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a18ee1ab615b8e1c2052c759f898365/vedonowabalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prettygreekvillas.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectofile/56064425175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supremeroi.com/FCKeditor/file/40186291336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/pibiboparodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/60077676482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samocvet.org/foto/ck/files/fejefogemesufiwaniwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151be67b0694---nafolefasiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/gewexazizuzozigeletajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/levupobala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/40982121589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/14987574552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad509d54ca4b3fcef449fb719c75d77/lupilipazapulubesomilak.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_off0000ae06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE06 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 860d7130fc5940f56e7e69c2169348d3f986f9ebed4f25432892159c41d82eef
font_01_sfnt_off0000c65e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC65E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE70 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 8ab41b04621464a40575be8e849031daca04e57449fe6c081bc6fccbc0537987