Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493fa489cc2d6e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e7822ac4e5dc76d4318f90fe2073593b SHA-1: 53070c2a90ad4fb2d33ae7fb373228c97f785442 SHA-256: 493fa489cc2d6e8993fd7d57687b275fbb7900cf4c2c01194aa2be95ce50ff7a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential phishing or scam context. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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) 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redeem+robux+free PDF link annotation
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c94427dee4---xeteriwedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/pepitilidadedepatebuginow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/17485953709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/86726075464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/kumumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/muvurepekikowagelobofafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/68684284032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69401007042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202193160322129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/13157533381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/pipixofaxatufekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1e9ceff0d1aa4e675c0a2de1527e74/60889713718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snkpost.com/fckedit_file/file///20210913_9_51_17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31245239687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5e02c0634---8220368547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f199cfc94---ropowabosipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/34485254134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patuwexumilezugabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/63225748053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reichspfarrer.sk/file/40678304604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/gofikavutipenupuxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390894e2f74---fapiwojomenisazepibexoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132117aade30---23815004319.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_off0000d8e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E9 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 09e7559743f834349a6226a3ebb86bce3f21d3d8506edf4d78a5e8f1bb78c343
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE1 16780 bytes
SHA-256: de02cafdc5358a257fe174319e3266c60be93061a0a9eed175680e8d4da8860b
font_02_sfnt_off00011b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1