Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fdcd34d3a0b5e36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9ebff5e8b011967e1c04efd434c93844 SHA-1: fde5d58e5ca1529c3b27f318d6c2245cdcac1196 SHA-256: 1fdcd34d3a0b5e368a79a1f3b535d0e0238d44a7a8279bc32daf97b08fbbeedb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of callback phishing lures indicates an attempt to deceive users into interacting with malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9bb868ac8---48433016367.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119ee85a1fdd---87396901922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/83280825775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a84febdaf128e4cd2ddcf61539bbb56/19889167388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/subiwodawutonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanshintech.net/data/file/84293361378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/52542390405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/52189502699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae8bfc571394af7f688dc04fa724c626/nusenipasogotilezogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7925118bd1be0054815ac8aa5a8ef770/pozilawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ge54g0dbr9qiocnjkjtfuq5ad/digegowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bf1f047bd---18827992247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c699310955---josepodukovukefufofovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/2057834084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/sufifemumolulofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/zifavaxuxulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/59406999317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecd9c8978bbee4e65246632346352ef4/868505624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/japokeribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/lamewigolilelizedegufave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108160003236828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/24098477556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608463306fc75---39838671217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29b6b2906b---16340015146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/dabazutademiriful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fiction+or+nonfiction+worksheet+first+gradePDF 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_off0000d66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66C 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 4800d379b07e336cd6140bdff46744d20936289c6e7666f4009cd58a23537ac9
font_01_sfnt_off0001040e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C25 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 97d32054b1eee13629b67ade0682b74192a683e32ec962b5920391d4d28bf1cf