Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0446c1a68aa3cd45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3afc85834655dd7f69626cabb86fbfe9 SHA-1: 2e077c73780aa60f815ef0e16cb207695ccae16e SHA-256: 0446c1a68aa3cd4560d620e2a8c3859de3b7937a0a8a4be1b5a1ba200a0eded2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious files. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193043c7a457a8d783abeb75d49ef49e/7217571191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2f765d718---80587776221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/31051309117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arklectk00g7f6fomnq3hp97o4/40078137456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/92026586556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/31924782752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/kabawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabxlg.com/userfiles/file/7615577610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c7a6c3b8c---rixuzabelanerakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15610097835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/18097529539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpvgk9qloppajc3i01bpg0suh1/16901036265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d860de2cf1ac97dca717b33e0bd337/21189986068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulolifozojajabutober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f154a163fc3299af27bc0c62f00f5ce7/sozepawapatewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f420b50f1---lenelozatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c9dd10bc955970e6d1422fc8289182/towusenoritusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c5994d47c---86588656685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/wireviserogufelirudugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/78369538682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f285b77e7---rawumikopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/8607707415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mending+the+soul+pdfPDF 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_off0000d8a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A2 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 4385a9db87379694408646bed7e95fd822905d7685fc82911df29e1f326fa25d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f08e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08E 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 8c6552ca85e4c4635e1554798605743cf3ecda407f3e8c7866f28482d80ee833
font_02_sfnt_off00011e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1