Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d694b8c37b1838f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-31 22:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a3719b0a371904d8e5bad7208270611a SHA-1: 584e518ce01fbac57b25d3c140e4fe2749a9c3c0 SHA-256: 6d694b8c37b1838f07fb22a97b10e8e05e646c130dfb815d9cef7484589f27d6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a larger malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd8ba6405f516882297ad55e19a9c62/71792331243.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ee15a772a---55142479236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/zirawebowejonala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fohow77.ru/upload/file/59059012475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d13d1245ca2d5782bc79ad65aefcdc85/tajonavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7156f708b1f5f6f1c04c875e7c6351/wamexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc62bd5f332be5e258c17e2914d359ef/vakamirebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/10518823317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82344429435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baca8d38cf---87829826116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfcf4cf6a7---wawovubemunugowuduxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076378ea14b8---wuloxewiwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/99294705767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701e093b51b---ranalivixipugubivawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/gugevigugonababogomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/tiwenejuposanupovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60968973751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fba00e73d---vivuvikawazukusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/jodokuregigiforoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/dajokonedimaximurodixewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/63615169905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/jedumovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfeah49dfav2a01r134lemt8n0/36314899183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+communication+systems+2nd+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000d483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD483 20636 bytes
SHA-256: c1998502e89b814a381a686999ed7cfd771b47b736ba82986f420ee3bf317254
font_01_sfnt_off00010a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A85 10992 bytes
SHA-256: d159a1fec7a5ce1e1e01f93e0dcef5263d47ca071d5b50f028cc39d953f055c2
font_02_sfnt_off00012424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12424 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1