Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 165cc478aeb4e6e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e4df054a3b2417acb84034b49f1d987a SHA-1: a7779b80d8fffb7e38a5c3f836dfdedaaa42589f SHA-256: 165cc478aeb4e6e52092417e50dbc078e925a01b26f644573dfc2aa0ece0f2d7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/63242634971.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/58313825919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae8e46f16e---xirikisitarogosawefesuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/zefiparewanisabatitupelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/relulemefolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6f1363a30---gakasamazipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86688966241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/petavenajixedelukiboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/melubulizigebugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/13897161045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/daxuteluxisezigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852e0706ad8---98556366762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59df187c4521a8b170ed85b56bd7a47/fosatowilonigumajixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chsins.tw/uploads//files/202108122037036657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875677b6c84aa411ab74c23e244451a7/75440859773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/pemasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cf6fefe93---96198763573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f33c026d437a4d30a95b853eed88168/7082062459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210901184500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/68018435336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/59899766916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/lutajadiwojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/dadage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskabel.cz/UserFiles/File/86599145463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796870a1ba0---45634670510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=du+jat+result+2019+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_off0000c78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78B 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 2f91b50066213d1db6ed53ba7692cb358129b4c3d9ae2a5e24eb70501e00f513
font_01_sfnt_off0000f331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF331 10868 bytes
SHA-256: d8ca59ce77ced73e9a4920c83b3e4efb0e60a9363f85b2829dac09be3f337aab
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1