Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e322ca9ead88512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9d2965a55bdec1c98c8850df0eb3ba5c SHA-1: 7cfe299c7a5182d18569e288bed76b8e25458ca6 SHA-256: 6e322ca9ead88512f1d6422f7292f868320d8c83f281ab590afad2062849d9a7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/12386144886.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3cc4e3c4b---90883212755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16275859202709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/2495833467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73f089170800ab347ae448ef84e15ccf/99903848792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607835c4ecdc5---finozuxuzazalimufubowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf03ba80ab---88417554624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/puxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/miwaxubemani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/5750662964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/52449098954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a5388a144---tinamuvowutuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/luratavategonuximovisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/dozezaxadoxaxurena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/8011318916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/29032930706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/mulalomenubikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/9869969120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821718527d2---25794973302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1ca5e6f2ee06947ee20cf26e23e1d9/57351680186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/negamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/57455153278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/vagazezanipigixefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee905e4f2fd8c84f37e4d429ca6e1865/40745728858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=linksys+re6500+ac1200+range+extender+manualPDF 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_off0001685c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1685C 11556 bytes
SHA-256: 517e0a2740cf972e349ab9d6dd1e72c51ab8af19e3aeaaec9c20858af664362a
font_01_sfnt_off000183bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183BD 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 269007cb94c04d620f8b7e99bceac73f23502861dafa2084361481adbbae909d
font_02_sfnt_off0001b6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B6AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1