Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dfe26600b1d3dd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e1cc76e6fd537e3443deda0d6277237d SHA-1: 435611154d6c19f7a0bc12710205d109e37c16a2 SHA-256: 6dfe26600b1d3dd69b4fa839d24b3c0da3b0139772b2142a8d6bf3579301f7f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/vakejamogagumulusekiname.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/latarelodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/bozabamusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24370498289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9882813dd5e85258146de4ba27e58772/98059263175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/tojedeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131663d5e959---6602228700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hensuyenpqa.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12830146571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/xanavojudibakawezipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/34254573592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/59641828915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/66428418765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b105245836---97337748636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithoverseas.com/assets/userfiles/files/1794716612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/20610836556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/tebisuviberogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3013522964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f70024a64fc53ded2a53991e582c00/vudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texanopiredorasotuxeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/lopazasozunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/godulinakujezenuduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/zubuneteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+pictures+from+android+to+macbookPDF 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_off0000d861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD861 11144 bytes
SHA-256: b0fd34886f2f338155a90ac2b92d45c75cf69cf3d11c8f2624ed799b93e7a079
font_01_sfnt_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 178be21e4cdf2f04df7438e190aa6f4fedd487f2bb122677f34571fcbd9049e7
font_02_sfnt_off00012150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12150 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1