Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce166ff6ddb7899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 693f9e04df21d90fb55df1bdb78c1c42 SHA-1: e10f51cdaa724a3aeead08f955a25212a0be5b22 SHA-256: 6ce166ff6ddb789923115bb254a020577d89aefbb458d63c9e4872532e692333
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also indicates the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, further supporting a phishing pretext.

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 https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/35534078107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/fipewazuxufegalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/wekototanomowinanufika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/87484139042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9cad9824b---492521733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fff495ee57---5345514637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/83081451106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/52185454271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390fc1061b4---gavaletoloxadadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jucariicopilasi.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tatakume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210907_184622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/mijefoxudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/sulinusemipilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/lelexogaredazamolojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/76009353476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/92730768008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141387d78f84---55307191047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109011321173562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/lisujadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/nawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/15733934960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/dukoxutovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83223335482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+wekkerradio+appPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46377834601.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_off0000eca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA2 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 442b212d0304b0693b6ae2376c602cde88166f9f2ffeca5d35c7df01184640c0
font_01_sfnt_off000118f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F5 10232 bytes
SHA-256: b9f2ffe3b9f6d96c037f672073057af5aa6965eec601ac8547063c5df5580d1d
font_02_sfnt_off00013011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13011 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1