Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b409accde58b8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 19:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e05f3007e286006ee520e18e854146cd SHA-1: f18dcf66bc2d60d45a14980bcf46b374ad328786 SHA-256: a6b409accde58b8eb8d9a0c175bf5663612d20163d954a85aa187b0303c80325
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a URL with 'utm_term=dynamons+by+kizi+mod+apk' suggests a lure for potentially unwanted software or a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dynamons+by+kizi+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/1513159149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b500e275e---33959353509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2095f19fdc5ba7d7bb3f9f92b7999bdb/38172685390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd68a44caf248491dc52cb7d5798c2a/27592715366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0d552bc71---47460876514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3719d1959d---simapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080877b91c57---80441110740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/lerelozetokesomura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1d19944e5---30832735994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/72852920448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/47306223670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o27jpv23iumd4pt332sh5nqstp/45300769382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17599b5a44f963d1dbe25ea53fb663b/wenepefewunepewadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f00f6326c---57805740020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01D 2880 bytes
SHA-256: ac64b8af80fcca1e0e594fba8a0f1e66fdecb42d42f059741c9e9f76428d751e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5C 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 332b319fca81fcf87b3d539c1b5a98ee396072d74542829fe32dfd72b3c6a887
font_02_sfnt_off00010c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7D 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 926ae299ee7cded2ccbffb61408cb78a29bcffbf3713c4c6efc45ccf162c1731
font_03_sfnt_off00011baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAA 21012 bytes
SHA-256: 913e6bb9ab9ef29ffecb6a882fbbbd37d842e3a181fd3aa64de2ed3bff05972b
font_04_sfnt_off00014c1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C1F 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 8cdf823de523e8b1fc5c3a876adce9dc530ac6add9ebe5232851228082b10875