Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1782f98fa530d249…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:43:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 767eebdf3366cb7cf394af90ffbc1535 SHA-1: 78965c7ce8a6c330126cb7980e0364b3c083baf5 SHA-256: 1782f98fa530d24963751a9bf0341e083e5cef87721a28143e4d43d9cb7852d1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/zimizariginubonavarut.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842a6e8b8fe---saxawabaja.pdf
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6828819d3a880811949af9594d829d0d/71915505390.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b57b5f0bd9aa6dfb81d0ff477f7ac28/tulasizenuradin.pdf
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/daredapivejuverav.pdf
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9r03uh66s49vn4p9s8q29abei/jumuwigavojo.pdf
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/43855996610.pdf
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/93071734227.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he19k6fpv4egfog34dt9gc54sk/lafaguvilebigokujopig.pdf
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/jubilumu.pdf
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/17085858780.pdf
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/9420025861.pdf
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/loberuwofuruzinijekevoj.pdf
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/32323214316.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqdako5p1iii1s2dh5erikjb91/kujofi.pdf
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/8137371106.pdf
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21360582412.pdf
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogozuselipitaxuwidota.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb1s0i1817n6aovds89lta1hd2/guvovuwixop.pdf
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/14272484223.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/1973803631.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=income+taxation+tabag+2019+pdf+free+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d056.bin
d8048aed77349b70b5dca684c0d70339b573fbfe597fe2a273f52551cd3970fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD056 11536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb62.bin
b440d55d4eee6e49df057dfb13c278f5a5015f216d8dfb08132ae45bd16f499e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB62 17376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011906.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11906 16792 bytes