Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6684183c406d145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2021-06-08 21:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 936a95a74f303c6d85d7644a5d78cff9 SHA-1: 4120970ee339a459aac6a2c1647e96c4a564cb9a SHA-256: d6684183c406d1454e36ac998bb7684095a885e284741310c684d4dec47bac77
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, leveraging a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK heuristics, along with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly indicates a malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'royal likes mod apk unlimited coins', suggesting a lure for software downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=royal+likes+mod+apk+unlimited+coins PDF link annotation
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb18368c17c---21010226121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504754c7b0c8fd5d15a26516b5e8dd2f/ribosadenepudubegugodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc2d7e66f1f19743865970dd4787b149/dulumerupejilegopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607670fb08781---buzikolilozunodanaboxuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc262f2943ab582ff6daedb7f3b326b/23889720188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eof5t3mnsiei6or5snq8irbgn3/6066790044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966db4aba5d---36972207614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6915b04ccb01b14872f698731c57b5e/48500286453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b57e4b976---dakiritopavasofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4b2995608---sanepozatexatewikikawelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/83793815538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/foxigiwojusolupopudulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/nibutopibonevivudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/91914881484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b05670e317---tunarasideviduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.htmlRegularDanhHongIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/dnhhngIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_008_off0001a316.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A316 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 3226ce3bc5ed81aee973719dd9700124d3af421d914d3c8c9880522f9dd97ada
font_00_sfnt_off00012b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B84 5856 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa302ede77991854f68567ade5304d6f1c301efb6b61063c1ac27043ac58520
font_01_sfnt_off00013fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEC 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3c87206371441739fe9720a9036dfff23771d00bee1cecc2d66f53f113db6c
font_02_sfnt_off000151ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151EC 5700 bytes
SHA-256: cc80d5b912f0724b30a27d1a907c37215664d9734fb15ad49e7095eac3ded7c8
font_03_sfnt_off00016343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16343 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 149738eb3e1d0bfb4a5732e89a115965e6f0cf3fc4971c694d3ce3619176544d
font_04_sfnt_off00017322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17322 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 269d0eba0791020753c7c4e046781db75087edc8067d427ae4aa39f11b2a01ab
font_06_sfnt_off0001c10c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C10C 3248 bytes
SHA-256: e4d5c25d9828885a16ad304adeabc055d0372db43a2d8c39966781f1b670b20d