Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fff7cd999f12a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 14:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2ac454dc601cfaa52c872e3ef952f702 SHA-1: 6f2e290e6e68fbbf5c03c1cfe9ed7b33016e9c9c SHA-256: 2fff7cd999f12a29124ea4b0d6b6ea093301fdda0c368c34e915a84cab0258b4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, likely intended to trick users into calling a fraudulent number or visiting a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gaming+centre+near+me PDF link annotation
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/66905992221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0597a19521---bodimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca307cd0eb0b96a6f2f3f33321cc1242/ranakosogopamagulise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4f88diveb8kd2ocabd0on3nqv/mutomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6859417f2---nafibasitarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af973d9fc3b---19372123442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmjmvc8glif9rsendmr7p3kdm7/90532680004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/midelaworozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d690299c45b---5733669626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9860177d77---wafobomovusesifadomupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/beguriwafediwubiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/rexenebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fff41a79ef9933b4732235b21b5a7ee/18853978301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b5acc47a12368713b89743014dcc46/2848493791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b05731cf3---sugilixiwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/tufizutuvuxebomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.com/clients/85333/File/duzabowelalejazalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210620193620008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a096c4d0500---ledimowozapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d05b084993---3315132724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/napivijikarelamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0754885278---majepotirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79768878280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 10280 bytes
SHA-256: fa7c38f3ebb3bc0f01d29f69643b7fd8fe629ee1d222e89b026895f7d9050be6
font_02_sfnt_off00010320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10320 17460 bytes
SHA-256: adb03f5bef3f194874499cbfce2836521d0d7a750fc9b305b031acbec7df1737