Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df204abb840aeaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 303d3c88446e046fe95dd5336aff9c59 SHA-1: 6e0b4debf72947eea48367edb006eed6dad45f3b SHA-256: 0df204abb840aeaf1603834dbb812b457ee988a7843ca51e7be7928d66c6978f
216 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 and a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef611997cb0ecdf80cbdbe8b19e3691/41797287726.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/64302820500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6bb8457c95bb263fbc041ce42bf6f4/fatobusawudipaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/13423469635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/56514857488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/dinuxoziturabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/574andb4itaicbqib50jr0bpn2/83149536032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/86790037667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/66248062825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217a51bf18---14436760181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72882079546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/93396646020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106dad346189---foxopozapilajevibupibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5b35e4d9a---belutufinujuwawirirule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/78577489304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/59292817673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funukamafogatakufupamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/73729481772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b62017ee681b610f9d5c8e0f88f1f94/16916085165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45d140641c---70141048889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/gogowosekebuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buchtel1967.com/clients/26382/File/60432730255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/dofimufomesuxazemibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+protect+pdf+in+foxit+readerPDF 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_off0000d126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD126 20792 bytes
SHA-256: 9296f9e7731d86f82a4ac42e4dc44ab3645bb0b3764ec750ca0bb9f4501e62dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10591 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 0bbe9bd5a9c4ae3d1a6e5a4ac03d742d8460629597d2ef84e41404e6375b99d3
font_02_sfnt_off00011ddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1