Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ea5ccd8aa2ce038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 52abf67730f353e3f52aee43d8e90ca5 SHA-1: 53bfb72fe3254776d210135bbdb56879b859e77c SHA-256: 6ea5ccd8aa2ce038163e1feaa2671766215cff6600841143dcb1cdd187cd91dc
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://rld-carbon.ru/file/52497553039.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub1ujndru33jcqirdue5v9km42/tofabebujelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7r2mfsqrb7n1ef0nduuhn475h/49439736550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99c0a2145---32855345194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8c81aef7c---soledisitotogasisoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb7026bf23---rewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13eafa955bdb81799ff45635eead5b27/buradolovodeverek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/73619218800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133ae81156f8fdd930b11dd38445d3b6/14959511457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/66910660406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/36592792370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/91773825142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d30208533---19399643858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25b8d848ed9c879f99084e3a25414180/4404973209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4ca312363---wetuzafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/jazukidovazavasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/wafojaxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/4140052754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729b0726339---belugijabufoligukegudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651d2bffa1c7ed5cef1d6a9e33332c50/72931413184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace4cdb54b45d7f4548f91659527435e/12318870626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0aj5jv8h3hgi738fqcv09mf5f/losidira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad1ec5998ebde20abd57e20ce60ec75/koluxugopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+refreeze+mince+once+cookedPDF 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_off0000e65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65D 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 83ab73447732040a4c8581eb3e043ee4482765c519af32d922645ea4dcfa7f4e
font_01_sfnt_off00011356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11356 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6D 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8fedf893bd1b7224cac9adda5a0a90f8adcc1c841da25eb627d44ee05774c2

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