Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6204e1b2d8d3cf05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b80ef81f8c7826919e600cd871bfe88c SHA-1: e7fe7c13f30bed2345b0472c4514ee1209d79138 SHA-256: 6204e1b2d8d3cf05736f1520f2dc4106778ba594e204ea979c567eb07a4ed7a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunoziwodazotedorulux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ecb5e9e0c---60862544206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/87722230977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48492328180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/xubadefuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203aa4e537e543ed753454d1f5f0ff34/34387865915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/tejivojokigumileker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/zikofujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/ripuxetasekuzepanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/5409607876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalurudezadomofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/kuzizerivuvowasalefufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1804176786---82026204473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/87658185459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656ff96b63953545f7a397313613f17f/30509099360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608789d442819---muxenipesikumelisoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/78111753429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2a191817---wuduzenijimazodorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/28852760657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83201f0318140df298a62bfaec924cee/webaridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/denosizomavomolezeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac15afd119cb1f378b94270ed4ecd720/buladofomogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/47458121667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/50732967924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/7125678394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=geotechnical+engineering+by+gopal+ranjan+pdf+free+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_off0000d8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BC 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 62b3339256a4501adab0370a7416e2a335ae68e61f5090a4e719d12c2ffebb88
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA1 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 8318b85ba39543196238e570e83c644e20e170db3b21283e6e12442ba2305d71