Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b0c148fb4305079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-10-08 08:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f2873257493abfb6a7dc55286a705db7 SHA-1: f835f5da82ee98e26720d204d7d75e9086074f8b SHA-256: 6b0c148fb43050795ae5ec6346da658e6e318bc549430c866c3463302da656d5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and a specific heuristic indicating a 'Callback phishing phone lure' strongly suggests a social engineering attack. The ML classifier also returned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/9567491835.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krld91smetdnnh9t6c2ub9nti1/totezopujovuninitufufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drterrace.com/london-100.com/userfiles/file/83191632968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021090508072689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/26817210925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///7609927659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/kuxebidorelunetunava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/54730741792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/58637612405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/61812492440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/lodazazaketov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakuxilupavokawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/13461586441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95710921640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rexant.by/upload/editor/files/bevizifabagonulafufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/13122332346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/vuxelataxalapijosujezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/66795238356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb84bc78a4---14343923440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c2550a2776ff1e000f3b017d7af048/lodofimaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/87329200799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434d6d827d7---9171908421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32mtbc8q4vlhavukgjg3hpkimh/76400710509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/jazozujinefaxuroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdesignuk.com/userfiles/files/jibuxumuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=normalization+in+dbms+1nf+2nf+3nfPDF 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_off0000f319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF319 19360 bytes
SHA-256: 08bf4bb923890642820e8078e9c39163f4a0b7097490a1927121f82da7bd2172
font_01_sfnt_off000126cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CF 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 9863b9e2e4faf17ecd40ed2569b7d719a06796ad874935e24895d2310a59221f
font_02_sfnt_off00014027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1