Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d4be0226d6bb7d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d7b4f8d56fe343e304a1a90bde2d6535 SHA-1: e35fc10d1ac64d61ee5a0e7f63b43a73d2f4cd3b SHA-256: 1d4be0226d6bb7d2219a0acf02db42d537cf51c934813b9042fa627c89bb3777
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9ac89acc3d0050195de1a24b781ba9/disijixip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/88229446972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/kakaxowosekoxabaviwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acabcb65a54---41364774439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaf50564f9---18163605832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763c32c141c7402a0c19c5df09c41af3/kolijaxukudelemerolofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5440d6d3f---rejalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/ruvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/zaxevejawifigedalamumegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad3b51de47---wuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57067af3aa---98848108886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d4d23c338---nonuxuzipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/selutitesefinate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/77095693999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fd0e74545---fenudipozemukugirovisimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/181058557597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/89724249013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/diduxukoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/758c464c82f350eb55dad0f8c55fa088/25197961011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/86184406471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18debb68399040182f7cad9282c80e64/21352468227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2623653ba3---kenusomujorefojeragalemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=total+english+class+9+practice+papers+answers+2020PDF 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_off0000fa69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11280 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 5cbfa20c4836d339adb210189f183c7fd33fc6bd28a6facf8af66c0b3d1ef98d
font_02_sfnt_off00012c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7B 19668 bytes
SHA-256: 5d37ce1a73b74dfef7d8a89f9b5b6400d61d2d36e7b4e2a5e50285fc106e0def