Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6097bb76f3c202e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 54c3b30857a24041f491c9f226b8a0e9 SHA-1: 7b9a867fd52720383b625ffec3af3715d506ba0d SHA-256: 6097bb76f3c202e1e34d7f7016f77b245212c457c59649a9947fda93c9c1f62a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, further supported by the ML classifier's high confidence in maliciousness and ClamAV detection. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the manipulation of users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/79899549978.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/5340355661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk1uu6sr7t582rdh8pcda53et2/77265212323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/forotisopomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/56933784570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/51490428626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02e0239cc1---ruwalinazasitubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/41518221660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/jufuzisegopupojobila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/52064471532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/55557222920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/98710782465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/mabotikazaxisaxexigizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938114f9a432570f36123dcef9029f3d/52184690098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/2655324121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/bobexarexedodewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396b815a7070aacba7ab581b28cd1a3f/zipogefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/xovaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bec61d0753---xofitimetidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/baxovimederir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dbf2cb3dc---40892398572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c5403f306---67529430773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/37303236473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taroberam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=la+dynamique+du+capitalisme+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D9 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 62d04faa5e57bf12de427a2af8ad420d1650201248a8aa89348ec8c41d9d5e36
font_01_sfnt_off00013686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13686 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 0eaccae60c8d63808c03918c213dee3c380873cc9b37be6bbcb500a3023dc548
font_02_sfnt_off00014f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1