Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17568b20d24d99ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 7cda18c5b2429731811507258f05f593 SHA-1: f6c55eb6d6a96e706acf9003e3b396433b3ae8b7 SHA-256: 17568b20d24d99ed7beca0398127ec40ea05cdfb9d4b56bc6769506fab8a5acf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with the document or its embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8887505bff---selunapopo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842191d78c6---35025207205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/78278190812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/tapifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/supefekijerisogetobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/kolidusekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32ke6j3p1hu16f3rdukpj9cct/vuvuwesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c9cdeee1f---fafegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/75451658989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5214fad3e5cf78ff3491e652049a7a8/najux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/puponolexogigoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b159d0b3106---niwuxivutepixexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obras.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/65841715510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgatedesign.com/Images_upload/files/50798908765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mowosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/gomepewomilawekalotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/xalelevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/vobokodimapatavapulugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/siwuturotojipuwakujinamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.custompackageboxes.com/userfiles/files/34601681775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/84092459324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11e1ff631e3124a1495d6ae645584c2/75944241622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=virginia+state+inspection+manual+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_off0000fb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB66 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 27cc8f16bc49ad5148319c437d69fde426a6571e2b3c982dded283aaea10565a
font_01_sfnt_off000114d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D7 18456 bytes
SHA-256: efab2a94567849c7173ba85085b43bdf8a5f37be0a668072bb46a719fd71ce61
font_02_sfnt_off0001453f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1453F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1