Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e3f9b60ebf0e8ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 20:57:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0321fdd08b80d9fe1f253a2531e3d0a0 SHA-1: dfbbabde5984c700f184a248bf9f4af182819196 SHA-256: 6e3f9b60ebf0e8ec78e9aad43870e9f8a5a5bc3aeda299644c2ace99ef06f0b9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-only content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • 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.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=step+up+3+vf+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://www.wappa.com.au/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9532443565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/goxapewobutevadeguxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de9daa8595ce718e56d6c9da599e26f/18424742671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lalorraineperdue.com/documents/kevatasorodenovure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/jaliwaginumegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/givarivarudamemosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/4459261222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/tizolikipanupojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/8416344479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/zidupiledebubimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/72741852761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/87743709643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/fudabafavunakugajekibeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saptabangunmanunggal.com/indomobils/upload/file/10146591101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/50451607373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/jevekemufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/punitutiworuwubiwipiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150755b2e07f---62491762839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/rotasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micruts.org/userfiles/file/1350399522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/damerisoduwifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc6075354---rilosofugavijilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ternovykh.ru/content/file/24080589174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153a10304ea9---senikuwirabimogisizoviw.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_off0000ae6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE6E 14280 bytes
SHA-256: dd1a8b6edca80fe399602cae4dabaefca67bd3668d8cb9e3062ea89b35e2aae3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD204 10948 bytes
SHA-256: a88731169ed6c3230b9a9630f21aa9532c4d263f1c61381abf8d33cf949c665b
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1