Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac58815c9206a6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 21:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e074d62c73067d5b443a01af26ab4fdc SHA-1: e164a172c2d7a6ca7f7ff7390cf0c77221520c01 SHA-256: 6ac58815c9206a6b685316b5a7d6a03fad046445b2fdff33df1b18addc8d3d4e
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification, ClamAV detection, and the presence of link farms on disposable hosting. The document body, though truncated, suggests a QR code lure, a common tactic for phishing or directing users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and link farm structures point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially compromised or malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scan+qr+code+iphone+photo PDF link annotation
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63956762778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/dusexobazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/wiwularupekelorudovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48129085353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/bemamiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/pegodadilobafidafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/31066161831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613396de66264---81184568823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec034d09ae066d4598d938430172941a/28102668553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tikaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/65079139607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/morolovubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/sekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/80449134356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/27084412958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/nepedalazotemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khmim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawakozudoxigubokural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/93956183936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prakseologia.eu/userfiles/file/lajedakefabatovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/49847417124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/vuroxiwuduxumevukojavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e28dc2a7f392911621bd7254e6a425/95726387767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/83660737687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/konoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/80467577240.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 9981c1aa563fad33c7453b2d27678a2335469ec799ca2c1c97ddeeb9dcccc6cf
font_01_sfnt_off00011561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11561 10616 bytes
SHA-256: db58ab21aec932e53c58b78fa75501788ae27b46275d751765be41211a0785e9
font_02_sfnt_off00012d63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1