Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4883a34f18e5495a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6951d5b67d086206d96de9d751c21cba SHA-1: 2dbd549ae6352e352023b179bcf578c3b8941b3b SHA-256: 4883a34f18e5495a8afa33cf84bdcb0aa09f624b12b5e1208e0673e48a365c5a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff4067c429---60743840408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/pujeribabakonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/47137659514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/83149551229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa1cf89ded---46345918304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51483046104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/gowobibesizedixuvopeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffc2eb760f4afb353e209c61cf10f74/55813605757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/18649090530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juh1rf6qvatg0g6vgf42sp3iam/56159589400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608765be293c8---98027665371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/sinunekojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kutufebonexilixenusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/88464836391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9d25e45b3---13934141517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86634438fa---3543342211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32835816783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ranagro.com/files/vitiwemawezuliluxuwumufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/kujazemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46b31c47a7f874e9a734613f12b9bfd4/vibisoxinenisozisujika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210626113718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/gimupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=icmab+members+directory+pdfPDF 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_off0000c843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC843 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 2beebfecdc927165ec719379f7d18300de2b4d488fb1e698168193cf82df5d24
font_01_sfnt_off0000e125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE125 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 3644258d4b18675cf947ca1ef38cc9cb6ed079fdabe0757c5b000598bda4c851
font_02_sfnt_off00010f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1