Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e607a62880fd95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 915ba9067a252da5c5807329c267f0f2 SHA-1: cda0a71e97ab99a808cb3351cae8090bc5b45b04 SHA-256: 06e607a62880fd95bfbb7d429db3bc200ec3da3991ded99fe5147edf1b2266bd
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent to solicit sensitive recovery information from the user, a common tactic in credential harvesting and financial fraud.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/zuvozegixisezotefudezen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hpcad.pl/Upload/file/82639191600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.com/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/80058404638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fb501dd338df1fb1a771d72091b2cb/62255434569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/26359880793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad79d61be586ce5f97bdd10cb77a46b/bukejulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/77012440803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7b409d6d12---sadosoxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/10411836939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/22804143096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea2f20fj8890abej5u8u32u080/63930266379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/52620856801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/33815169462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcfb1d7eb0---vilakifebimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/vovitegatuzusunazatasuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/61000819426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/fofuxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/wapulugivowazarusetevosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849e5d547ffa4a3b089e02bb1ace9078/pimezalonarelavajawezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f78cc9cb1---31432285722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa4168b596d4ccd82ed77a26df27814/8723453114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamhosting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelifudowubiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f83481d45---rewarovasuderip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cherubinowy+w%C4%99drowiec+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B2 10924 bytes
SHA-256: cb2e3006f34653d9af5135bf604068624e43e5af74cadd8b3c0f40b5632d05c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000db6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6E 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 88a5f3ad9079b2340172ecd64f1cd79ba1ad1753eb2b73e58de10c5a7be67d15
font_02_sfnt_off0000f161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF161 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 367d6bf4668e1147edd26f74b54fd58d725c18bf6ae149e7112194a9d490bfaa
font_03_sfnt_off00011f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1