Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6e1f9913722c60f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f24a47154d7218d96fbd100e2483f5f7 SHA-1: 0cc105ed0d4f4d28b855641ee3f6f64da9db8cb2 SHA-256: a6e1f9913722c60fbcb32d3d0df4b4260761286a4be6b0cc35aab67c9e265ae8
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=panasonic+gh4+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/35934057502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/mobasudabadefena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevafasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083f52ef3f52731d773c165a5f15f739/93793881810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/wemepurizutekerukifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/91738268786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a530quvl3qvs64rvldb0eqvcc4/giworutinakamajudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcbcb879e0---99820193986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/54812289164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0b48c5111---68835865332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/63190829644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f78cdbd7332018d27ced92c807ed35/vaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/92134499860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/bixuzitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/50726017567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguoixunghekiev.vn/userfiles/file/nulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794ce2c5d63---87168552634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acce2d3504f---65664461873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l0up3f29h63ur3qanibouirv1/21086294001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161213483208b5---29276279955.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_off0000e538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE538 18452 bytes
SHA-256: ba6ce46ed01b0746e3cd5b1cde418a5b76e65b41ee55f7a937d14366d4f71c87
font_01_sfnt_off000114ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AB 10524 bytes
SHA-256: bbe5f886c5776baa8da960eb341f9fcfb17a4e836579a460d81623773179f3bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1