Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e282cf041d8d8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 21:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 30fdb1120e696279296bb98ed0a16dec SHA-1: 8aaef9348a60cae6fb5a933ac3dd77f33afbf906 SHA-256: 06e282cf041d8d8d1abd1f9a1becbb046259a9b59aede14bf19fc7a8aeb94cb7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. Heuristics indicate a high probability of maliciousness, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure of the document suggest an attempt to distribute further malware or engage in phishing activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe34c337caa9588bd43dfe33b25fc9e/57076960885.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///nilalabevalirizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908110059351719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/guxuzuriruxixizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/xujanolavuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391afbb1e1e---71094649516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/82344966296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/januvovibudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intemhathanh.com/img_duhoc/files/jiwozukazilotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/53743365282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/toxupumopebijativubibelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b37d7946c7---64140598152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/27376280101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/81032616861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/42727258754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/35520439741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/76088456830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhang.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/72899826185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/77742543487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/521743134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mituwutuxidinazategajunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93118708570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neretikobazogugowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balbu.eu/uploads/news/file/55031271844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2021+mobile+ppsspp+downloadPDF 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_off0000cd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE573 10876 bytes
SHA-256: e580b41d5608ac0fb2615ddf7608837843e84e2ac040c8785e0df0ae84254823
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE72 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 87ec7844dcf73dd91432b3f7f14da797077b1b878fa50236fe970873e784dc4f