Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e3dd1bb8aa52833…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: aa3faec85e70ec302535c60572f6dc9e SHA-1: d84ec1e856e17af40cdeaaefcb7911b3a4ac201e SHA-256: 6e3dd1bb8aa528330f876d96c7168e638278b58e2ceb868613c436d8be0bd984
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing lures or a trojan payload. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+10+qr+scanner PDF link annotation
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/guguluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/zenipasatuzepaxubigipoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388852f50b97cc8d860027fab95697c1/60481012398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/86493761972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/80968031220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/nikopazolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20583502851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/26794155284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/tekefusidawawovodavoxafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/davipajuzetuzeked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tarasovfabrika.ru/uploads/file/20429770817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufotevesiluwexeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1972a6e91375240f3fa584f8920488e/61934772703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/tonugefila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakdekkersindex.nl/images/uploads/715511490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v97vdcppo8oa5bl9qdsmisij12/45149449897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/10871691178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11737219750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torremaggiore.sitmap.it/files/files/94572962480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49431615827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/41978225500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/68906514429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cancelaria.pl/galeria/file/48428878106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bb845d821---28156573083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916120712341219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/powut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF9 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 31d1787d2117a133043d9a62a11aab6456c4488d5d7e08b5732b21e46d7db70c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE0 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 7e04cce935040256d7ba2503c38ad6c5181fa5288879a6952ff4b42a913e0b4c