Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e171e073905da2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ff1058592cee2afd95993f135090a7ce SHA-1: 9f353ddcd58270ce5eab777e6fddbbbb88d7bc99 SHA-256: 6e171e073905da2c80b1a783ea03e494591efcc12b3ebff43a0d28bb5fa8f34a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-based document with a click-outward action, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. Multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting were extracted, suggesting a link farm designed for obfuscation and evasion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f794abf96---bizudalawavedugel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/54325426794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/wiburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chpcentre.com/files/file/remesufuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57861935991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/feruzemazizorefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/53156048350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/peleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/wagifatanebaroxomerez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/91067740216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/vewanifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmedcentralplus.com/userfiles/file/29776195784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c0095348d31fd0dedd478082e4652d/71451840418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b95unoa536adofm5h.com/userfiles/file/60554470459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ossokahve.com/upload/file/33770112753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-maritimes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45756331239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobezesuvokininibuvovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianbelieversmatrimony.com/web/christiansbelieversmatrimony/photos/ckeditor/files/jonazeweturosezuravirugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/62790843257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65167625291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/fijakasisapolesodilazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/fatumeragetifawopupakiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136af0b0115d---97193897011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/gitinokutopaxarikezelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+lie+with+statistics+book+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_off0000b284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB284 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9B 10824 bytes
SHA-256: ab57ecfcdce435711909b49060536797ea2269d3abfe396956679a6486653234
font_02_sfnt_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 13900 bytes
SHA-256: 81fe7dc0300aae1af222015a55dd0171caab4582aaaf1a38260cbc9187ca58cf