Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cb4a3c552f60efc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3d0906005198596eb6dd60dff7845925 SHA-1: 066df3dfaf08c340261ff6d6029f1eeba154b03e SHA-256: 0cb4a3c552f60efc4556051c620daba410820eec93773fd16984c49c0b1c19d6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a callback lure further indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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.
  • 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://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3csrcq8m7jdvvrus0jsdvuno4/gufufejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/98519347212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104d4fe9743b---93888423099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/32195306247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hazeloyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gerotodanigumitijarubajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/52440882568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608319b3e8789---33132708220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozesatotudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolewojozupovagumofexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612774e9f0ae7---xurirefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rexant.by/upload/editor/files/daxunixowobefufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/904c291be33ace77946aafda6a406a9c/xuredem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/berafelujaveniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairtransplantmangalore.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/dojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725b120c861---lixojinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/dopifomuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/7859262412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/82729545005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/91412633959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/45130321191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca4cf10fd9467beebc20c554a03b163/juzozuleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/narumufurapijojoratawoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f08b912410b64fcd862add3816bf27/46510603187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+xs+max+schematic+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56A 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7342007ba173345a8039d11b984808d1d234f8e82600a50d4ec1e29962756fcf
font_01_sfnt_off0000de1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF630 22172 bytes
SHA-256: fcb1153cf1feeadcac9ef287304fe9116be7e01eeba19b7194a01ee8042ca532
font_03_sfnt_off00012e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E22 1820 bytes
SHA-256: ef4c56b83544acc0eae329b123dcb13384a4443b8ee25b6b011fcec9f25c534c