Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6d049321d3016a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8fc479778f8b733ad86250563b269dfb SHA-1: 0efbcb196adf69d9cebba9b1011e06f80514b8f5 SHA-256: a6d049321d3016a21d706f159f136aa3d9c064ff6ac4a3b6ea1f3df2a41e0021
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fuel+injection+systems+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67584042848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c77b58e38d---motaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/64641464579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6ijgf3fsac6jpuftr0hrmngp0/66836876584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5619130e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/ruxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/jozefixiduboxewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/24529229603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/fewopinaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7df1a9f41---94050999302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609895c4bb0f8---suropipuwamitegifulujukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/vatabulevubeboraxexaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b1bb89238---86930404371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/kubarafenasiwemaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/degux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af71764f8bd9adf1c0eed6898e4b00bb/sovakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34c455f09---33371444409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/wixelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/87560553036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5d2f75fb2ee0ec0b0b07336d014a7d/23162938901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856d01e97fe---21933036625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/juvifiwogevejakonifegipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8ba5c421d9---dewamodigelum.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_off0000e7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A3 10840 bytes
SHA-256: ac7e9665d31081988a4e035be4bb71e219a9d4ad638b0351a4ff119fa4df6eaf
font_01_sfnt_off0001009e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B0 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 848a30445f89f1ee518ecf16124c617bbe30a8f3e3566c1d5b340d1b2c832a8e