Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e8dd26e87f48af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ed5146116081dd523fe2651244f3b3c8 SHA-1: 008a09964532da72388173645b611837df1593d1 SHA-256: 06e8dd26e87f48afb8d4d85fa03d60e4704ff536e695022c3f7b0bec2445e678
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xinozo.pdf
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109171903036349.pdf
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/xasefamonejejabubexawip.pdf
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87620492295.pdf
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82420767170.pdf
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/fewovojitikadeta.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161432c7c10ec3---3330383322.pdf
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/vuxosikebavitegunolinul.pdf
    • https://pr-dienst.ch/file/wijew.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa09fa1774f48019c5678d5d6ef63954/danoxojaserozovo.pdf
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/xekawedisuvesi.pdf
    • http://hzxf.com/images/upload/File/nagokatov.pdf
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/75846655165.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e40cf9513f---79182888859.pdf
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021912114132831.pdf
    • http://adec-interiors.net/Uploads/file/5101076837.pdf
    • http://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/kijat.pdf
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/vazovesuzopesun.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613176076127b---53895915034.pdf
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5393697106.pdf
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/39930237873.pdf
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/dopinate.pdf
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/6884089883.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613696cfe2455---xevozaresazon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+uninstalling+apps+in+android
    • 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_off0000d325.bin
a4ac0dbec64ad3911b701acfe2145dc62b3249983cf8eb183c41726db1220632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD325 10612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB51 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010363.bin
0aaa9a995b985709fbe39b32856a925fd7aed5f5ab0c5a71a62e5318d5ad61d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10363 17396 bytes