Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1415bfcf4baae5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

165.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7cddd5e53e21e61d2177d5a9a99cd11b SHA-1: ee79f012c4ee675a1ceee89227ec9c83618ab849 SHA-256: 1415bfcf4baae5ceacdc73b5c1776f7b13acd70782b738397c63cc25d910b8f8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a phone number under the guise of a support or billing issue. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to lead users to malicious sites or engage them in a social engineering scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4329accf36a10e881258cfc4acf52591/8817116788.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160993ac682456---kakutefupejebubeniranonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cb7bcca2b---30582789625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce23cdc610---totimakoduvizizutunokavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2387e63453418609981e71a93f070b48/63513706324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb67b5c0dd3d13057c55c78f9f13e5e/nivavefisudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd412ee80d895abd94f786eb592d34f5/zepopavulewelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae62d1d0c0---zulixilutepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oninlq5a5rvpgg9katn29k8bek/33819536704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92122402291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hajni.pl/userfiles/file/49442045031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1976.com/clients/0/08/080801f2a31a95d446b71e9836a5425d/File/najen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/pafuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nv4nf675fhmvf7338g6jpma4mg/ripomorixuxolomejisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c813f73397---notexedanefolapekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/8296174107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/sutaxupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/mekamiwigariruwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/1017592404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6a1aabeef7f8b32578dfe65efe95fb7/nativeboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrolliance.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6730693600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f8b6fd7cbb05696389bd5b968e019d/jokasirodunirejanonumiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd4d684c68d29dc9c0f0a1d71f74c07/xaposaxoseximutusupixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6d9fdf5bb---56546066291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=baruch+spinoza+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00021fe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21FE0 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 1c72e99bed730ac0a004ed8f56741a20dab381a68d99a976f21338d4437440b0
font_01_sfnt_off00023838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23838 21416 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4bdf1cd2600b91185ae50ddff06711e16c9ce417fe1fabfed6ed405e4d87c7
font_02_sfnt_off00026fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26FD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1