Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aaaee02191472bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c60db98da5940144556d02ba6115f869 SHA-1: 389b1793459dec5f16b84dd547012ff3454d8da0 SHA-256: 6aaaee02191472bfe04c094747a9d512b435590c62c1680896b3b5113e03bfa4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a phishing or tech-support scam context, and the ML classifier strongly flags the PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing campaign that uses malicious documents to deliver further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/24805389299.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094451bb7775---nikitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/59486945671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6657b8039---45145870537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/35824210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/lamexozobajavigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bc4cbf286---84057826188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f026q531ja278n5f382pq25gd6/kaxesazajurugofozuvotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivieahk.com/clients/5/51/51325344bd1517f257d6959d5350918e/File/roradumafasaponevewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/77304786230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/80971883043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/nafusoxalewozojafimixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugadinugiwidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a3811e499---20804316209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8900pp3n7ml0ok89e9gmhajea/82025831816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/zobozemetadaguxunikutopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117710bd3564---xinaxokazewafonavunujodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/24041757522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/28956291260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/wukogisuwarovevopideba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0079d962a0c1a7a129954d4f68096248/tokowexewikamofusapaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf1ef623eba6d3bbce205103242ddcb/15601444912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shelton1961.com/clients/35589/File/83172165646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/tamomemomajaseleforizuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=nebosh+igc1+element+2+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_off0000e4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DF 18084 bytes
SHA-256: 25b2bfa2ccd8ad0685eea39200713abddaa3af9b6f3027b14061c53c99a14048
font_01_sfnt_off00011474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11474 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8B 11096 bytes
SHA-256: d693c3526286375f366feeb76e2c148a798c75ff38aa64ba5d7a8a5add5c0496