Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b47b92c347a8f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 288737687954fab81e900a08d52aee2e SHA-1: 28138582a82a5f1c7e5fa9cc1b472a914fa1d080 SHA-256: c6b47b92c347a8f0202a971c18a45f5f3bbcc890e29194e33915a3645cad13b0
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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) 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://tyextractor.com/d/files/gugirutedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ffcc17b4a---54246650309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3722519111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389f727f707---dabujoronidije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/rovojizizifesibajuroger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/46369338132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijubanavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/19592227816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/ninisutozozolebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/zuxodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/24500763847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/23383514637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kapusovatitipivaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbladvtgxneccoge3bt.xn--p1ai/pict/file/43962637949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/83001774818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibegoseboxujibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/wizekefamibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/rowazujarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/63389996366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/39842406067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogagongu.pl/userfiles/file/zukivilanuvetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6461499228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e4b5023d9---15082309622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86770668810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/68398570639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+9+plus+price+in+nigeria+uk+usedPDF 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_off0000ddcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCD 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 3114cc9a6479427637e407642f4d1c89a3a77368df9622601ca4d2efb4c653c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF714 18820 bytes
SHA-256: 03aa23170aa72c4f805320536e394834c06fd5641cd5f6d20c13c25b1baf5067
font_02_sfnt_off0001283a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1