Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 343492058e6ba5ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:36:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c59b80b84bc0bc269c256732c29a1e6e SHA-1: ee0f8d5ce0f6813ff3f3959452418d9343cd52f3 SHA-256: 343492058e6ba5ca97a60af43e313c55e0a3a12436033d63d09883e23c61b141
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, attempting to trick users into calling a phone number. Several embedded URLs point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a mechanism for hosting malicious 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 https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b940d099265---72720705716.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhrsf307ot3k6q2pkot1sit8lt/1159071915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/wojafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/dofopasabatinojewivagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada77f221e5fa86ec0004e71927343c3/rejoruboxisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/63672485668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rebogerilaxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/mazezemukeraluluvinawukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/26240109403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d2dfae730---jokusiwukobubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6eca366e4---71346955607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/53877256040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/66023613092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/62694002675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/661822af07abfa4124c48db89e96b1c4/miwakatewipimadudinana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5ce56f256e468a23affffde6515881/bojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098099beb543---80385955944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e6027f49c66a380f9aa3885f0fbe4c/rekirigasenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/bapelepixalofojojanikivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a268b4ececf---menodadutilumebujodojibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/lipejewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/84970716964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609223db6e7f6---sorilemola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/71437132820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-p-p-c.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujafipupikovava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=once+upon+a+chef+brussel+sproutsPDF 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_off0000effb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFB 10748 bytes
SHA-256: cd0c9fc1a8d9de8e33b7f52279a65150b2f25556d98801ffecf5d2d71698a66c
font_01_sfnt_off0001087c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087C 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 4e738b7027684196a5556cba53a01b779392dc5f2437553c4ad32bc12769d644
font_02_sfnt_off00013902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1