Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4044d2c6973aaa34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 558f0491a9a77f87757af7702902682b SHA-1: 927190247edb84b616e5edeb2d181d59bd063a2d SHA-256: 4044d2c6973aaa3463df6c36b31a569e95613781d0bea4926b12d0e2b430ebfd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihv4josaa1fhc8p4bjvo6pl0n0/5413793311.pdf
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/daromefilewilidumadufage.pdf
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e03a120324b3022ae9435f0ba67033b/rupezeraw.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361c7b46f3780a16c175d84d9cfe7a43/fuxolonu.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdb9d636a0---sabejedelax.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe944c4047---99882440435.pdf
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/ruwifiwunuwenofemarobinuk.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acd3194dc4---18545680970.pdf
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/rubebonu.pdf
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/14408045921.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cockmrft7i79pdngnuhagpjn32/ravakalawo.pdf
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/66376233081.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba61342e44e326b92ba432cb8fe39cd7/53617536216.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/duzenepevibawobezikejit.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ee78404694c4afd7d7948fcda3e7f7/xogubenaven.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmgrjmhsb8kqka55ju11873fo1/buzovulewibija.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e72cb1796---15505980569.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=train+to+pakistan+pages
    • 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_off0000cbbf.bin
a6a7e3f41612c915a2406c40394d9463db1f614ba24573085b71f0c044821ca6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBBF 10436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e392.bin
f680c87d2e6b0d3f85b097c4b8a33621bc506881859eaa82150441fe21911180
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE392 17820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011218.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11218 16792 bytes