Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57d8febfe314afb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 20:13:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 2ef5d4662044f298d65ece7778a1092a SHA-1: ecc9b500f8bfa250654b721d1e6a9c6671be6590 SHA-256: 57d8febfe314afb440555fe63dd0a8f70c446d1aa7f3b058a684b8bea776b21d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicate a likely attempt to trick the user into visiting a malicious site or engaging in a callback scam. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5th+grade+math+staar+practice+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/78376488956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/kojazuxofimaxitokinojisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/kedadedenerakadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/37019526191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents//files/67828808578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb357c0be6---13755890653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t70q9pkhb4cn6kcphm76gif6fo/pulufutimepojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70dd704d8ece4e6725ea82e70fbe08e/dipukelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a336e0d13---55991453078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/bunaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/dalobupajuxirerilonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/25181321913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexopomezukuzofanamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/87313758124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/23411718360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071661c2b3a5---60553470097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafofimipexefosazinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084215abfdfb---30215821259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081629f9b075---zomunozamifire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/fivisebemaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be1gif6mfao3qnpvtn82j83pr/19910301298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzufejuminujutupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0800-707-808.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210805211614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/zuvitijegidubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc25b56dccf---82326010206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644ffd8be3996227fb3c9c82a5bd0bf4/28938460526.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_off0000eee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F9 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 8043d9908e32d8087ab6b94916ed1c40986355dfaec5514583b0a676ac9990cf
font_02_sfnt_off000120e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E2 16604 bytes
SHA-256: dc77fef80aa7f5a9d9441d1695a8fe147df657fb1deaa98a8b7d1ee41aa5ba13