Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2841967cd36e921a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6a22945e63817d086cc7ebba503c599b SHA-1: 690877d7983972c5ef67d497feef0f7f39536ac1 SHA-256: 2841967cd36e921ab946fd27fc38820cd866c97f2574494e922b678542f1d0b1
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 is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and potentially a callback phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or engage them in a fraudulent phone call. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969a61e663b---24171302754.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902de69bd72---kibowejizimuwososi.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03c94915fa54839ec709c2c4ef6a75cc/34151830568.pdf
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/bepukujimetosixoleripaxum.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbd1l5hu65q8rtq9ul326bb1lj/41193725857.pdf
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/31054922064.pdf
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/57398496943.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/kiten.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741aa26cfe2---70693237459.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b591169157a---javuxemelamopik.pdf
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/11833127018.pdf
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab59c37333---renidiwipixoperij.pdf
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/19771503354.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3326b885284d9aa26bdfb563eba05b7/xawokatoxomaga.pdf
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/guxozikozojawopev.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3jk77sj8uqeuel6gk1g4al9h/75170728448.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aipdn86qef41g13l4v3pr7gk2/jomalanexizemuwowikimena.pdf
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg62er65vkgqm97p7ki9d2v0l7/wukinefunixu.pdf
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/rojagewubapabimisatomozep.pdf
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/90889281867.pdf
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210502005421774663324.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1671dceb7a5def68f0eaf9ad7b787ee/43915159816.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06j474mpibh1n5jugm7n08v2l4/16733268259.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/tebipu.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e074e117c84eb5cd1b0246839da3424/53560354272.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=online+railway+reservation+system+project+pdf
    • 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_off0000f6c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ed4.bin
0b4f1bd366d6c33f8bd37e8f7aae44829d7851abd952346ad8fe62213442c8ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED4 16872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013aed.bin
c9b0943c292ee5dbe785cf7905f577498e4a07d0c10f900e94c95a6a09134bd5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AED 11200 bytes