Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f5cc472b9a50937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e4a3d6614ed0548349cb4007f3234cf6 SHA-1: 395d5b4004bdc2fd3079580cee080a0a44de9b87 SHA-256: 6f5cc472b9a50937c3a01f1db77943bd52c46a80bce0377542401bdb4f3aaf94
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic point towards an attempt to deceive the user into interacting with malicious content or services.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97424720569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/96708404777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e226e411a1a---30484060806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwisevigatetezese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021042821520762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126320964073---84359886387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/61243568801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca42874239907cea372a04978f5af30f/mobatijasubijixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/jadofuwosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f30b2378e8---75987337992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk62dorv9d0acfa3t5noudphme/solupona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/rogurakotopugesizuwolulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/30908368183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/zubokipoxaxikafavakafege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215d64975ca4709ec0b67804958e2aeb/taxusotolapujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ltf0cks0vk6t7gduv182moju0/bajumubanatemazetajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/zavixabesutixeketuxalulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/xopavolirinukekasafetelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/xibejefekibizivafime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/73156039714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/52002067153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atonoserver.com/userfiles/file/47217941652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jrpc2fgcp3s6i647fitj9tso2/dugodapudunijuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87q5sn3fvkncgd8di8i23a7pl4/79179415425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/fawutelitazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=management+accounting+examplesPDF 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_off0000e323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE323 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3A 10812 bytes
SHA-256: cea19b300f8a6b9f1703210478974190df43227b2d52b6a04357800231e7de44
font_02_sfnt_off00011429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11429 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 08fb87765148b6afafed9911c8486f52bf4a86109cc0c87456adfe16696e2a48