Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4286e2f955d57e5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8d7b170a2fe234f89161ccc332a20c85 SHA-1: eddbfda7e60562ec32b4f784961316a0b1a87f60 SHA-256: 4286e2f955d57e5cec23c8c70986bc94fe214c124fe17a2d0e1ccea3ba669079
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, although the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://merydian.pl/nowymerydian/userfiles/file/4162995672.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4d6d07ef91dd6a00d836765865c4d2/56871236833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109070043246187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakaxodesedamerelufavukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/dajubatale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufipokorajuvupomevedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301877d9ae9---34045139963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/89343524232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9006445030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/02072208649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/vimetepizuwobexetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3532840325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqjuoh5u1krgms0tvavaotpf1s/32002309634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumland.sk/upl/53219678830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/86665703760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/20573181641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4733771cb0a2208463a2ecf67894b1d7/lolasetigotiroxuwamase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukupahit.com/contents/files/gopozaxewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/39322072394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allineers.netlovestories.com/upload/files/45888412769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/86557089740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/90532085485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/lotizivorixejaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f49d0deff---53994912598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lapse+it+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000dc77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC77 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 98519dc59f5f3e2211bfa2f0c10e92bc51ec466505cb8a8b1d8b508516cedf35
font_01_sfnt_off0000f351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF351 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 186066916a5c4be72d15a5043cb279d66c8f616a83e2375bab78e9f162970200
font_02_sfnt_off00011d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1