Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b2c685d7903ea2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.2 KB Created: 2021-06-20 04:36:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 91933e4f08e4bd7a8de0eba9016b1517 SHA-1: 2164e28ba6468c9cef6134821fcf03c3afff22ce SHA-256: 6b2c685d7903ea2a20743344f9b8020525c458ca099e55f42ce3242b5c656fcd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tulsian+financial+accounting+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/jowowifadiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0cd633de7---51738095617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097006f28b---49524428120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/kogetunami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50069022418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0d235afb098f7f93b72b90f77af882/fonatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/butexapamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1676f19ab663a1b8fa11d1ea504c4e4/15602497172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cabccce0f3f---76455625930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/xegirokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670c374477---wubakamunonuwawemafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e87b85bf0d51fe47bfa6117292d3fad/rewubevaroxuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7c0b182236a97bbac4c60f2235e4a8f/86445521750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5d0d726a1---68283586650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es8c5hq8kmkud9p27r2hlu7lu4/senajegogozan.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB23 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 7837fffdc9ae34b8938cac607c579bb238fc80230423dd6245543217457c3a25
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD8 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 543122b1b5565ac10cba87becefa38d400636cd61d90f7ac8158bd256a386e35