Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 077a805b3b0daa4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-10-09 12:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d4b460ab59693d60043784df0da0c3be SHA-1: a67f3f6edb8273848e4a7aaaf0f720ad1cf4e0d6 SHA-256: 077a805b3b0daa4bb3772e018152a3add5209e139d8235c699d9cdfa34aa4231
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the delivery of further malicious content via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+haunting+of+hill+house+script+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/1580527684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900dbcbc91cf9526e45bb81012e986cf/93225314481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/lovakofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/xakarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/61512849971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225db79aa22992b6c3b32464854d5e7a/gaxipazekefere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmehr5v9sr1f2ie6urgobvmd93/wuxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df1dc8dd8e---72548260116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezokniga.com/uploads/file/74294643870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/2738920807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/12/file/20210912_235239_150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/5773537481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0be0a9f57266aaef210cf8d656936a/30035874336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamones-luna.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51205884028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/lotedewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/41366454215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/39392093831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614da9feae059---zupolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/36592702932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/16308903352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19527676434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614200d13bc2d---22217480997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/68929040323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/9740708294.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_off00012666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E78 20188 bytes
SHA-256: 628165f2bcdfc3ab8a31ca011531998bdfd136a0d1bbf802b796c5ae48cc817b
font_02_sfnt_off00017312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17312 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 02eaf6d93d71d02c4da10f22777e15af895e9d75edd9eaf32d80009eea34f865