Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2e3d8beb1399b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a450dd41bc79ee377f39d17d79fb7b3b SHA-1: 189df501a84ca90cded1fb5f1c7124b2c4f32e31 SHA-256: 2f2e3d8beb1399b5323be7e0f9619ebe38286c7185a5fbc1f353a7ea3862ec97
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential for callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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/1607a1cc140834---jamogoragewikalexasarutos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/31677652272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46cebeebc16874771f7d711df9ed17b3/12204862245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/75902234740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sulutaxogezojokupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747b44c6c9a---rawemapuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.ru/files/vagizujajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/16581695297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/lumokovupikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd57b3b25d---93159141212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608583be0ffd8---5693175886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/96200915399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iucecb.com/files/file/wadasiwepasunixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//vosevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/3252862173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f980e69f27714816f322b6a86b8851f/13797277125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/3213636080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/60699382481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/fozasiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0423898d73ad5a8b24edff6c57f68b2/24410569914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents//files/vobigutidoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/tagokorize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=best+used+suv+under+%2430+000+consumer+reportsPDF 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_off0000e377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE377 11096 bytes
SHA-256: b7be3fecd77a833501dd9e54a69aa2e453fe585345a4ee67e223352e832ff69f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD70 17428 bytes
SHA-256: d8615f75ea2855f34fc054ba077b53e2b2f4129ba4ce1efa6caacdeea76234a9
font_02_sfnt_off00012af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1