Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ed87ec14621ee12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 20:38:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1adb729ac17b64f1d15cf7353f82a404 SHA-1: a2acc8c63ff86235a65b4e9254160333618d96a7 SHA-256: 4ed87ec14621ee12be8248f2093456396af767148bada5418b0a006892f17d06
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate social engineering through phone calls. The presence of multiple URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains reinforces the phishing nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/82188503016.pdf
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/62476829668.pdf
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/34345759175.pdf
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/nirekurozet.pdf
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155eff401322bc97560b77160e7e0d4c/xofarumew.pdf
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/17833215389.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/64720765335.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c5ba2b407---63725172278.pdf
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/9eaa20d5f111cc97ac98bbb97a6bf67c.pdf
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/58814016874.pdf
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/tizumomogurox.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c66b48a0cc---68286626686.pdf
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6guq4rh5jmju98d4vc2506m097/sajetatetozixowebelofan.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f904d9f66c---63920479431.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ebdc6d7e6---14764463571.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20cd31bd05b20e850f7e52feafca20e1/xanibujexatimakijemidoj.pdf
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17fafa1f0aa395256d3fe855a1c0eb9/zojakijiwewi.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/mugavatibubixepetuketunuv.pdf
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/15824351939.pdf
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwuw.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e232ab4ee46fd972fadc728771f4d93b/99752216697.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+activation+lock+on+ipod
    • 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_off00011250.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11250 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012a62.bin
f148ee2a7fbf9b68c7a8665802a4fdb3a43902fbfa60f2236431074df0345fe1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A62 18360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015a5c.bin
0cf2f189bda5f50359be795db7fdfa92c9e1f73a983064ee5ce4ff6535889807
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A5C 10744 bytes