Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6388126a60b6e715…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 623ea00bd5f9583be566909015c4dedb SHA-1: 9d71b8ff10f78bb29c9ef57da2069c5419a43249 SHA-256: 6388126a60b6e715a4264536b8227b9fc058597a8d31a6712ccab55879cebc11
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to potentially compromised websites, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying a link farm on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with known malicious PDF campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4bd93a936---tekirojizuzabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/fubigataxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17840141405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdo.org/img/userfiles/files/16274257929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/pegonovivitiponabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90b2c151c---71064333996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a094ec643a1---dojatuvusegisiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/gurigixoxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/varipiganalikuxovebokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5b3hve0dl8n9hhadvjdg8hg51/zirizoxolujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/kimigobijamanavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/jugazetupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/bedubobogovokaviligomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e06c53beebe0562ae59487478286616/10541417917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/36360008871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a474c37eeb---rerinaganagudowujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b0761a07d9f0337fc311d1e016ac69/2734599588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51059592701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f618r9nl1nimh8u6did8ko3a71/nidujeporud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/48030582960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/47282493223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=schneider+vacuum+circuit+breaker+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_off0000d6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AA 17612 bytes
SHA-256: b3e4edfa8249124d0a377083e70a14ca64d635445ec02e1a0493e14c84d3c5c8
font_01_sfnt_off000104a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBF 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 25b0d0b61484b320dece57eaec8bb2d102daf50ad52e73e30f961af90c98b648