Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45723b7b2e089b14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c0267862ccb76f290d8cf6621d4cacd3 SHA-1: 0b28d3822249f7facd92108f0f55cc88d7a2c627 SHA-256: 45723b7b2e089b14f514011ba417ad5d571b759b9185ceb8bbe4f9d917a285ca
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context, aiming to trick users into interacting with the provided links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=afternoon+vs+evening+hours PDF link annotation
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/77089000171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/80032546131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sme1970reunion.com/clients/7/78/786f1e38e9ed540b4a7d4f5dbcc09398/File/29026906910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d1f8d9e1101e6702996b4a22de4096/2292663220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/67582072717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/tusevijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c529327b740d7872681411880d75dfe/11591616308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4e25e714f---45313759089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oc459urbkp4khvtt5regd253b/wukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66a81b049b---xaxulifojesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc04b5ed9c7---35135691510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8da528fc6---kukiderinerojiwaxasexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/lijowewagawixotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607482ed2ed64---tutudomirubukolefereta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210607093049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/tafaferadabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c3c0b3317732c0ef88ca8c1c86f77b/misonimudivobujogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/jodelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/fufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6b59b2265a53f97c501eb43985b71a/54995499576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9bb8354d3a7b2842148d2a53fca5025/57271286418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/46864004345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af49b58500a542bfcf47111a7da7764d/fifiluwidunonoxisuwunobop.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_off0000e819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE819 10432 bytes
SHA-256: db2814a074004e29ccd0ec07b6cd20bebfb2b97d95688a8b6897814c4868be00
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DB 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 600444c781a537daa7068866c703d3c4069b65789226ba189e09bba474d21e62