Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 546ef36ece69efd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 24d20a2504b1e203ef706d25c0d3b46c SHA-1: 1f7caa2ff6a151920767cf4ad38d244829757c56 SHA-256: 546ef36ece69efd060b906b3de36f735120b5008ce5a3941a3a9b9cee8efae38
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a potential SEO manipulation or content distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/zenevapulupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/85269581819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/mekemefevebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/zutobonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608926db17679---83285573935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/lupuvakijirupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/94457761533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5644404931144503b5211d4d1b855d/kiwazurusubanomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/86029195020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/21720403001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/69765475913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.com/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/wigagonusezuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/4670206165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3525375c5080dff8ed0d7fd15606d4/51760015412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3860073712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/bufaruzoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8005d871a6b4ccf4d264d1e39b93c0ca/19190987771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fa9904696---19971966410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanshost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pekekikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e9db5b0909764d09d3b52f68f8ae3c/67410945904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/30844467998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/jerumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd06ht5b5o022cv34gnbtjak32/velutuvubekejidivuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/gonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/692d2a9347f2414c182ba08e3ddefdc3/mitimirisixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcjj3qjdnhgu7a2icp543teqp3/vomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/luziguwafivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=preoperative+assessment+for+cardiac+surgery+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_off0000c876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC876 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 0f884e46f797af1760945372ec04d4a38700ef397c3ee207fa62d36f27c0ac19
font_01_sfnt_off0000e289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE289 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9B 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 64c14731058e200b0fb22f316c7146a3180bdd5d5a0263eb977aed95250155db