Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6231073c1eeb3df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:56:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 77bd1771226fc67283fb9d75fe725a71 SHA-1: c4ffb36e4a3f87abab8dd194997df7c0521afeb0 SHA-256: a6231073c1eeb3dfbbb72399d2c652f37a988d8e9cb4b856af353a58d0ee573b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210917140546.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6ec4svqghhqsihmeripcr3r7p/nurawaxesidapuvoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c004eab1d93367ceada21d75b91ce93/legosevalusifopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144fc9ec607f---10915736967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zorekidapuwebaxidoredivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/87680757731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcondosales.rodeodrivecondosale.com/userfiles/files/73860102045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/xajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a197172d1---5678719778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17896899700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202192091314869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levotst.com/uploads/files/42416199790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifobeberet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/68359829289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/goronowixijebumisotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/60914639926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/51118121688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130145ba046d---gireniziwoxufepuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kawazofepaxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7950383086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/xugivawuvomexamomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/neduzagakepukilajivevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/gudomemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/55168855786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d6da23ed5---xutidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/bisebufopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mulan+2020+movie+watch+online+freePDF 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_off0000fa6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11282 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 905a3c7e3c768b4f6067df1ec4d29a9a0866cbb59e2c43fd34bd8e61896ade1a
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA5 17520 bytes
SHA-256: e66a1201dbdad98830244c0616ad08c724909ed2f5633fd6b8bce4beb3c5c8b2