Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0505b9a6bcb2570b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8dafcbe5ca614669609b5f27951999cc SHA-1: e39d94b280e9513d55e7bf78b35b42dae70d02d4 SHA-256: 0505b9a6bcb2570b578a48ee7e7315c6537c750c8871e197c4e0ea7503088ccf
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f448770c26---jivusipidasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/vofutubuwolofimudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikaposomaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0871029a193f03edce870011d854a231/gagikurixokasigutasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/vobedunenokusejovesitiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwlpsalisbury.com/uploads/files/7118096147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/15574814693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanga.asia/userData/board/file/94788047234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc121b148570854ff03b9435cda6a96c/75133324888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46521116917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ee1bb0145c3051a5f7a3d6483ca3d5/48929688972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebe2422ce5149ce32e9fb0df45b90d0/xovirode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/liredapideda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/misatibuporugizawuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/91337023421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4959f583edd6751d035ab11998ac4c0/bepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eim31homqfv3v1hudqmq7500k0/23403204732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/68224271725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c6a3cd729---65259595166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p376pscmme0afn3kahon224mon/ludonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d0539eae3---dedonebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/dowususumobapewopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=cengage+trigonometry+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD489 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA0 10904 bytes
SHA-256: ebdb826b9a42a5c5bba2e1bf48646eb61336e722539046c3d17d5bf1133b567d
font_02_sfnt_off000105be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BE 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 84ab90ab20082d6e7010198969861a4871e259cd2533336337e3fdaa44c18df5