Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8f45548c8ae009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 639aad2f03e6fff8a9a7dc058a4a18c1 SHA-1: c0d610bb15d3af5ffcc68606438718db794c58c0 SHA-256: 6c8f45548c8ae00928144d248b05f1c9264a7e36d73b954ccb825b4886a623ef
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, designed to redirect users. The presence of a QR code lure further suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt.

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.
  • 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 http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/vuwivivifisumakobizitax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/25927633038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/xojasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/76755796034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132de192664f---56522187580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/73024327881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394b8360448---88784290242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/31956732505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenupejutefixamebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/31252177428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51876370141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/lerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319bc7804a1---61010034699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3mfa.com/images/editor/files/tubamiputofifetefewaneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210916111811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/sozajaxinizorubotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipowusepeparuzosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemoturewokarokelibaveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/16946877661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiffelflowersquesnel.com/userfiles/file/2038417552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/84917376839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/95588289111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/gexenisezikivulerifafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/94846079040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzlmjx.com/data/home/bxu2343160066/htdocs/uploadfile/files/purixelidukapepotaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+qr+code+iphonePDF 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_off0000e2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E1 10640 bytes
SHA-256: feb23e40b3065cef9d1eb35f47b494b76575bbe41977286628018a21bbd47275
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9F 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 59d94b1b016b3bd444446a07347cd76c2aeb438a1485a4b940310b6382b941f4
font_02_sfnt_off00012714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1