Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0efcd9d1cc8d38a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1f059694cbc4ef429e9f32fd43a55df8 SHA-1: fd2b3b255d057762a29120adc3bcb2361df21db5 SHA-256: 0efcd9d1cc8d38a9974452ded97281ecfa17404dc8f98db5b1232b6ae704571f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, consistent with phishing or scam lures. The presence of external URIs and a callback lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/26192380317.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109130208273002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/64396392311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/77456614450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/28577267538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63775030995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24df3732a76d74d34cc651e9f1626416/zameniwezutotokeboraxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/49832654990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6v103of7qg9idd5v861sj7n5b/35875762639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/wetatavabapojagelikamaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d0d81e8c689bd668b7b92039ba88a7/jinululexafutoxamizobovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoigolfbinhthuan.com/users/files/pukoxasezivizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614307af4f244---13497429414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/45338519473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613613676a909---dujipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/17138569931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/matarufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/sajuxagivizazetesutofeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedical-yub.com/uploads/file/83675853348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea0027d161---87521950353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11728502407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/57363780068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/12407473904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/30208517028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/turetefudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+9+screen+timeoutPDF 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_off0000f2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EE 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 1767d3a4c9efbc15757dd5f551afa24f0c35e2b2d2ff7b0c029829cc732f191d
font_01_sfnt_off00010b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4C 19252 bytes
SHA-256: c75ac185ecff84253354e2ecc9af6797dd590364ba9f6a56285e94670cee3480
font_02_sfnt_off00013d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1