Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e94c50521249058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:20:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: edb2d8802b78bd77fdf64d91e625d82d SHA-1: 03fb075231217ba286cb66a6da18c8d12241b6d7 SHA-256: 6e94c5052124905856cc2a7893a0058f52c5d2f3a5b5555e9aae5f31e64f72be
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic also suggests a potential phishing or scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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.
  • 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://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/tojejatax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/6165879148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ddb127121---kazakorixevufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75181e4d8d---vixapanaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a9c443142---dikopibalijeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e9298b151---manezubanekewunotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b3bbdfb02---nenibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7efd2ca209638987e747bd8e684bb660/85185324884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872130ee740---52439536559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onboardviaggi.it/themes/userfiles//files/pusonagugiragozeniwuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/forebom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/8541029633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/40880225223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadamasristorante.it/file/fototot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4904fe38b5fb724f3198fb65ebc29f16/6029008464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11809034414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/zugefopumizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11615627106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102a5bbf92c8a967341de860d20dae9a/3563535875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32ad81050c---58380925776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekufabibivipitazato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/jaxekeleniniwobuxefobefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasudaihocsupham.com/Images_upload/files/peridirazadimina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78cbf95d98---85679088329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+usuario+mitsubishi+lancer+2015PDF 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_off000186bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186BC 20880 bytes
SHA-256: c8fd67b3d3f071e16506dbbc43ae74068d4e7ba1f321affa5d47e414790d7692
font_01_sfnt_off0001bc68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001d47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D47F 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 9a849512fbd2682df6c9e5d1797ed63a1c023f7227e2c2c3adac92207c32fc67