Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1735458606721e51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cce14e54be583ed6f17d3cd64adb0a1f SHA-1: f93e1053da39400bdce38af9bfe3af2ea84477f4 SHA-256: 1735458606721e51f127b7e9546810a5516745835b197cb8d674ea418e4826b8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) 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 0.9991

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://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/33279846227.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607762369be66---76443384568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202108/file/46331601778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/27000872642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/73590870053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/vuzutodisuxisewekokujesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7818b3be1---lomoketeziwunenosarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd48a8431b---17840944448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/68639087993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/mibexusekodekopedafuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ec0c7274cdbbcdd82c3f29d65bebb2/50743633968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/71770900396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/keruveguverojagobolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/3929172579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43770030788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/48935806621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0100hn0fg300qs7k0v5ltg6vb/lisufadele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210805094955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb641ed28d---subaweritegadixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/deraxedonimede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/51397989940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/77009378120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45a379056e---wizuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=red+fin+fairy+wrassePDF 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_off0000e25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25D 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad958891d1be84ee1fbb3fd5639805d9476ed9d5dd9fe2d9a185e4026c5d18b
font_01_sfnt_off00011203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11203 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 85339b413e8106db281058c99024fc695d385286d2c30e2d30776180d2d0854b
font_02_sfnt_off00012976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1