Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2961dcf1e71aa27e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e8986122473a9698ed024f9c229e09da SHA-1: 93eea0a3c917a9812e94fba4c252697a7b75abe9 SHA-256: 2961dcf1e71aa27eeadbe0d7a0c0a3893dbeca336d74d4ffd2ea77945ccb1154
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm or SEO poisoning scheme. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, though no specific callback number was extracted.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b64c11ce---51005629741.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710aacfa4ea9eee9a98c9e658f564a5f/83483034630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnaepicd6a9d09i9a499ukmq3k/nizuniwositisowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/begijodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7rho0r3rvijp6bkmcoeni96s5/88731829300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f90832872---37986067113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/pesapuguwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/74492249496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/8376329543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b7714d828---labofekunijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/73064415716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f09373c857---59373172946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de898bb2bbe126d591681f1d37c7fd75/86576685826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/6342673034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/noxonimososemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944cba252c4---majutisoxaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0464d0794b6bd115d06a4287f8de662e/jogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/bigabafamabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do8pd6k69p3cflnsu7sq070sk1/2005990077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/89330721373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12445e95eb270618f395fed35367a257/8277926883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=12th+chemistry+5+mark+questions+with+answersPDF 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_off0001510d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1510D 11196 bytes
SHA-256: faf91e72aca954eeb040036a1f64ad370800bdd464bfb721635743861af14fc5
font_01_sfnt_off00016b4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B4E 18112 bytes
SHA-256: a080756d30f8c7bbd80f5bba376c8f4fb894506acd76ededb4c8bc602a64741d
font_02_sfnt_off00019b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1