Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6a0aac0f8144991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:11:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d376b71befc6bc92484e0e7da3e6c7b SHA-1: 73b244f9cca03239fb5610a2e02aca89126c009b SHA-256: e6a0aac0f814499163a1798d57cf412fb2471109a2abc80512f75d0de636231c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These URLs likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious content, aligning with the typical behavior of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+right+humerus
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/wariramuz.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28805edef64f837d709ae0e7ca614471/sezawowivonupizak.pdf
    • http://cepsagibyachtfuels.com/images/photos/tonesusipoliwegabobufipej.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/44220154031.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8roi1jmj19pae5li5vn82fopdl/mimudajirafadez.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714e968ffcb---87666746156.pdf
    • http://bidhichand.org/sahodyatarntaran/userfiles/file/mumofegekemokunepikij.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eec121d3e---zanimotufujaguditorigi.pdf
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/kawotovejuwumobamazur.pdf
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b765c685fd0dc521f01a5a09c23692eb/talakezonu.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987cadbfea8---50797242239.pdf
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/xirutu.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfad04f0---woxapojoneseduvubagesoxo.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897eac7f346---pimopoz.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siuhcbpefvnno576k34conk5oi/sinetetizumeseberexepagon.pdf
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momavogasozage.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd84017b1b0---54518830342.pdf
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/72561241338.pdf
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/37269346623.pdf
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/5890390661.pdf
    • http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/1934884985.pdf
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/33388093998.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2db8ccff95faa1f6901c99caa12849/wixusegezun.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccfc30746ed37278fe155e9dfb986f6d/53154364554.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc45.bin
c32bfe75a07121860b29dd69af662eaa5af7dbb8ad81d801b4b7f1cc03281ea2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC45 17520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012992.bin
0f755ba7ce0e728856aab73ce1a50996a7f9dbda56cd0e8794a22b1ad9b3ceed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12992 10188 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001406d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1406D 16792 bytes