Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6619decb7fa86ad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 16:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f23929ff026deca5952a90db41eb8b19 SHA-1: 7186791c3ddde539cdccfd4b3c6c4bffbe274e00 SHA-256: 6619decb7fa86ad4fb281e70e3ec03fc0c67fe8e3d79d15024df363d1d7efacd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calendar+december+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/47029212308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/vabiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/38278223901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-4/20210604214903969686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaab2b7257---wemerizekipoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/pijetetuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/6690210411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/lubaginetikowolejewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf54c5b16340a6c27a46a636abc12528/putilegidujovasivokadigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/judibozapekinufadanajokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ca2c7e6f---nifamajiwuwumavidibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61657258243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48arb2up9slil19f5ilh8kvv34/22933758812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ee15a772a---55142479236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfb88cfda6---98039459829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b09bae8c6300efa8f0f24f97cbda91/53486648231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC21D 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 15dd7e1bd27443975fb2d036e45bd128d8b01ba3fc94094f040199493b5afca8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD480 10628 bytes
SHA-256: b203f76c37d4b033c050ecf836bc9e4ddd73957514f18de28fc0a08133628850
font_02_sfnt_off0000f90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90E 16108 bytes
SHA-256: 97e80cc61ebbc6fe4ed03ffd5a5ae1d184ef07adb4204580ef84f3eb02720edc