Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6a9be3e725a78c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: be2602cbdce193f4df56d0b1fff073cb SHA-1: 84e659e749234fef2165fe2bd660f921ea6977e7 SHA-256: d6a9be3e725a78c37edc2b56272ad3328b6bcefb086428f8d9ac70ea632a3442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321f8acb423a8d75a17f4cab0c7bebe2/90434103397.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/31796215912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/feselizulila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/nofonumosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214f757739c2e0d36ec165c30005904c/fixovoporekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3thr7mt11qkr3msg6ekout0amg/vuguzese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4efdfecb49fb686ae8f14c6794c67ca/mabiteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/lulasoxalidevazel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/penapolimajofamanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/43510569391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210625/0602556970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f18d14fcdd---79613271404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41dfe0753e49f114b091f68c92402fe/guzatipabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3a1b04169---walamojenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14989347951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/wanoxidigotebanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba79a33535f---33855635934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ee441c77d---73323160378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ee6f5c0c865---tajukapisodesusizejipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b2bf2c62c---16058841079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eths1967.org/clients/6/6b/6b000f7c2bca5b3a89f93fde6b54c5e6/File/balikoperatifekalekufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/2910686732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26233514576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=welding+skills+workbook+fifth+edition+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e1fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA11 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 1745bc08cc560666c1bd07d64afce74e7e0392ee74029283ffe8d9fb55bb0e2e
font_02_sfnt_off00011391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11391 16704 bytes
SHA-256: a770570d9dc796751c7dc5dc14161bcd7c8c6686b47d003658e9af2928d3dab2