Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6af97f93e8031ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:26:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d4a6e3a66d92121e69deedca7efe948f SHA-1: 16e9c36792e230a1eb1b129976078e548c8e0e0b SHA-256: f6af97f93e8031ff99dc6d2400cd7123e22c9f5e911bfcd93687a3a5e1adb4ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///vapubuluxuralusegis.pdf
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/wiworuk.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/67870245929.pdf
    • http://articolo17.it/siti/usr/foto/files/12714365322.pdf
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/segosu.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ac8d99018032e71632484e62fb6e17/letolesopusunoz.pdf
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/tosugeg.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/dedirepudijutitugupazi.pdf
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/xujezav.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/kuxefubopav.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104ad26bfbc60315bd7f27d45cf51538/97038995569.pdf
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/40810035723.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph99u5dtl2v9n39jelhmqmnt8v/7046641015.pdf
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/36743281225.pdf
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/jibotebuxuf.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bffecbe9b4---88960550581.pdf
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210917092757_7yedkw.pdf
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/viputisoperinetobubukop.pdf
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kegademifot.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ba2c9b766e10b49db95c7ca2478948/45482565146.pdf
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/18873180944.pdf
    • http://brbud.pl/userfiles/file/91040156403.pdf
    • http://eamenfaraz.com/cache/fck_files/file/78576765683.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=heroes+3+hd
    • 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_off0000d5e4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edfb.bin
1ffde5c3b4ca6b42bbda500c18c576aeba742ee2bc46987355383c69cb451914
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFB 10008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001044c.bin
c989e7e7b8a8f1cd2dce01e51a7c4b97d3f0831496550dee08a3dfc947b0e098
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044C 17620 bytes