Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1f17e176a82f46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 17:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 89ecbc7a9692cb78c9c01dbfe9bbfb79 SHA-1: 8422a7f018a3eac1151dd0922180d36e51668ca7 SHA-256: 6d1f17e176a82f46bd4c300d50bc5b840c4071989a7a0c54044d6892a6502f0b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate the presence of external URIs and a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+7+wifi+authentication+problem PDF link annotation
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/jisipizetorikixirabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermocomfort.ca/userfiles/file/64292673925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38137465154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/xinipefazogosusoparix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/82564803650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///8638284678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/573218486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39571237251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeongwonenc.com/userfiles/file/97673223264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/51783825560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4mrim4ds195l5ruq3iam19hk/pasanajapubozosejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/18540137373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/nonuzububiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210913031044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/lodarifalajozigizetuvokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/56026997873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/gumelogolare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/xunonagalatapamuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/wemifuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400cc94dda2---56957037529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26aud9ekce9hij7crepnd8mlj0/53881820578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14818921900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f44be889b1---39898346707.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_off0000e08d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08D 11072 bytes
SHA-256: de04a9824ffb7ff85cc34fa9cf492d4633732d4afa6d3ca521d00bfdaeca4f6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 399bfe286176f3a9f3938e7b34ecc5fc7af62a188c860bdf3d008475489272b4