Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6232323aa17cdce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a276c4bdf7ddf738d8e151325266d50 SHA-1: aec8eba210ce19319e26b26bd8a696da433c659d SHA-256: b6232323aa17cdce36f0a26392c793fae766f155c2cbc3d4a9a656bf661f5b9b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The primary attack pattern is social engineering via a callback lure, aiming to trick users into contacting an attacker for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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) 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://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/negikanowo.pdf
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce0ce7ea77258975570dc5e2bb78168/47355215109.pdf
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ad80cad4805e173790829b94a06ff5/vijabijavixafo.pdf
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i64tv1p6j4da1j1ivpetisddb4/18346574255.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/roxuwi.pdf
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/damepafadosurukuluxomox.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0382f2d8f1---patalozezeluwamilavekivil.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ls49obpr969s59mlbare6e4c2/popikuvotuwizeju.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a775e3513---70527559587.pdf
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/laruvizosesepogat.pdf
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/kujobanovex.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5876a4308f60f4b37bf035574f1c8d44/74189172912.pdf
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/jisoba.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f91f200e9---52988887639.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607371a30a1fb---jamesogel.pdf
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6140a8b62497e3cb967cda401d06775/99764196475.pdf
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///vemezisexosudavenuf.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd5df2580f---bakidajinowasepakowewes.pdf
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solisezadaw.pdf
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e2rvftffgfllrmmis5r1bmk3/65670472596.pdf
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64069192937.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=she+is+patient
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce57.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE57 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e669.bin
80832ef210dcb9d67852193ab7dc4aa1dad94775a4c47766610aecf7dff1747d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE669 16744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001120a.bin
f83db089252c3f79e6dd88964a1bd14aa9dc8ed2640b1e64ee1b4707d7baa9a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120A 10156 bytes