Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6a1939346f6ba34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6b17ddad8705df6ddec6c4d75501a8d9 SHA-1: ceff70fd4bd731076c0d0876a1c37a55e43aaa38 SHA-256: d6a1939346f6ba34d9d8fcb171c88d3834256ca930b2c60cd5860d4ac205ac25
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 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
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=secure+vpn+apk+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28400676831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/89668632437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27111773053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d4985d7eb---76800657552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yey.uw52.com/upload/files/85317971849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flashdisplay.net/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210913140153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109091249288544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/94210848145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/35673518112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/moralifajukupewulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/24107876170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xedipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/zewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134684f3bd6a---wasimifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/13082249365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131dc284610f---38441670227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28765205033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramps.org/userfiles/file/zoxameroxupefara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/68652481093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7caa8ac41de2aabac42c9261c000cda9/bisatirarijegupuvutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d2fe1032d---84771523963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/kezomixa.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_off0000d3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E0 18668 bytes
SHA-256: 19b2dcbfb95f4831b0fa0419758e6fa3960f43bbb812aead1cceb6286a728d4f
font_01_sfnt_off00010390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10390 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 029a984b92901c7e91c55e6fc798c5abaa456cfb3b3c2c49a5017d32a001e6fd
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1