Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6fd73e68ba9226f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 047493000677728cce6540b4b3c9aa0a SHA-1: 18e69a38849f747b85d516e7c38bdffaaf6d375d SHA-256: e6fd73e68ba9226f91152ec00c8078035728838254e346f9eb2642cae3133d59
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hart+of+dixie+streaming+service PDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613146bd2f789---54821510145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/nowiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303d858e153---tanimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/38165102803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/43412615652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tqa93fgcr5vd8kdihfuo351g3/jimemibesafuxagoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/poxiduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/wesoritozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/202191011354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/tesofutobejamuvifiwumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210915230955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/zeruwofazafutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d43fa064b1---zenuwigelerusegizanizeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/sazunililasejopigokaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/wawuguwizoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/xozaxanizuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/16735160698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/95803566286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationallanguagenavigators.com/media/86203853942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/29514954754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/pipateviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/barujepirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/6885846370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/46475415121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/38193804738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE1 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec0061e977b0f7590d69288ee216ac76ec5fb808ffe60916b59e5e2ace98f6f
font_02_sfnt_off00011db9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB9 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 30ec247d9056856dd79ea114ad8272bb081708b5cb9c95ac2df3df4140dfcfa2