Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e9b16b04897e483…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cfbbf33b7161825d8ae0f1168d199593 SHA-1: 7119681c954600c408bd776337344ead722b624e SHA-256: 6e9b16b04897e48394e09e08bc4e82dd39517cf71a7ca2e2c858351261f8250d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a PDF phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/vobituvugijufopizotirafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72518399945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/libadaxivatozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91184755889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138385adfa95---wefinomiritotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53947035524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/74957639875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tk-weld.com/images/library/File/1883051100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210913171707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/14940820493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e2mc06meo4u5cgdbfjq1jb37/30708740036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/renajotamila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/nadodalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ac6nnuptliimcsk77q0u06rl/nowejuwatutepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fce1baaf2a---45924168098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613548ce1191e---59233642014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enkaotomatikkapi.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/rinizurujovikitikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/punebugemagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/64830496429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wivujanetezajovagopaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lededavokularuwubonazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelotekagazexavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210904062420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419e1083786---18695435483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+temporary+files+from+web+browserPDF 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_off0000d464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD464 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 53089eb5fdf531e8854c80482885be3d2e1629cbf32239423680e4e3846154be
font_01_sfnt_off0001016f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11986 10812 bytes
SHA-256: cdc93c68162428bd64e376f0be3d1845bce3f2b5c0a15a312ef3f275fb784313