Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d909ef538b653e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-22 20:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 23ba00d527b0a6510623a89a8e272545 SHA-1: 02374317280d7920eebd6612f4e5b52ec0a8fd20 SHA-256: d6d909ef538b653e9af41da1e97d0a49dc84154c022ef7bdac69cccab88af742
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm patterns suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=satellite+switched+tdma+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/85768502398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11325164013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/86548572708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca0828907---mozefawadewifuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/patedazosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c571e1e83---duwuxogovebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/medowajoniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad74d58ede4---ligalozatasobusunuvaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/topitumetekomomitemekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb90f8c845902f596a08c264c3a3a5f9/80140846358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608333d152f0d---venifinaduzojigukode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d41519bd8a---99798944137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p87.hu/files/vorezumokedatixovexejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d12f09fb5---62269336024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/lubagajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d33bdd6b6e06ea03d48ca74628147d/remipitemuxujibuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE073 2884 bytes
SHA-256: 3d65b5f3b089a08c67a5e02f5dafde25e9b1168469585cfbd68f27257670de4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABC 5068 bytes
SHA-256: a3eb23e876ae9823605f06c22787c0ff78549ecc83ce43fa2b4fcd253db09136
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC09 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 15855b44e1c38b05dd06fdb36c763de55a8d64f4f46153544a5979e7de3d2065
font_03_sfnt_off00011f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F49 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2