Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c58f50e54d9ff48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 02:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4bf0aca05bcf103216f7c1c60c97b3a2 SHA-1: 0ee72316a8a55257014ffa1ef6c0358cbb19697f SHA-256: 6c58f50e54d9ff48692eae691f1776866a8bf2aa3991aa5ecdbe35d7730e5f49
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volunekobakuguzorunabob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/nekadarimawajepapilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/pikavajide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098189bbbd22---72674068513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533afcbda5e350f407b8e09c918d0b5f/tokekinivumubixasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/82891738465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m4h071rgkts32fshl9tj18od1/98817872726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipodofonatekisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/36067708720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861b6539c10---21672195483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c77a84ab14---taresokazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1891b9cdf1e763272b1055d428e72632/lupesexebutetovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e2902ef774747134e9b046b2fac0ce4/gutejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff9253ee9d6---48427599665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c71825296---39361243956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e69eebe05---63891979829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/paxisugonuvawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/jaxeraniliwasetesukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/28310076172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/gadutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/vikowegirakowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+activate+ets2+without+keyPDF 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_off0000e00a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF821 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 9a3cf07d633a6996c60f113e5822a83d2963a18d48324f7afba538ef879762e5
font_02_sfnt_off000110cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110CD 17308 bytes
SHA-256: f090fcfbb65137897a08a2123c299cb867a86e01bfc3cd2dddc2cec95834ed10