Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dc958184eb595da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 574f66bddb0ac603ac7a4d2b6d629e75 SHA-1: 92bb599b5b4db7e04642a1212d9d91e4105df3f1 SHA-256: 6dc958184eb595da1c78426c1c8a4e5f9fb29c29b9e1af90283c3a25c5c859ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for a fabricated issue. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs suggest a phishing attempt, likely involving a malicious second-stage download or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://topflexsports.com/uploads/kojogenurijijoroxil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/zokodosotineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/winebudadelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/88990889778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/47677645140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3c3d9e52b---lunipinesujakizotegepoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7c6ddc26e5---61094782234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00037d65d---bibusijegisisirukilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73aff373cca1219e647c24d0d1e1d2e7/94729246764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883caa471c7---41646964132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/16891195988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210813032305_h3n1lo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7sir6tipj19mh4shjlv7qh5o2/39836004316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/rivapapaxurapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/wudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/binafusakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce4dfeaa1ae8d005f8e2452ed9d4c365/92561527434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a483fd8e70e---73763369700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/sejalibadijenipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugizivosobadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralteplostroy.ru/content/file/xadelijudopozakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigigexewevotawowuxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/joneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608197fa464bd---65228167601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+mail+federal+tax+returnPDF 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_off0000e1b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B3 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 62353e094ad9c40cde1812e7dadf807555853d7d0f9fbf7de70677c951c1dcf4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DD 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 6d19dbc9f761c529d2e26d4483c9c29f4cba21fe2cd8b659417e4c5eff7d3e40
font_02_sfnt_off0001250b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1250B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1