Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 597c278f30c18730…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:10:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7ce15455bd919eed41b7dbb619d20e4a SHA-1: d685f435f70ff765e70843618f7d768e921a2fda SHA-256: 597c278f30c18730f810ef7bb9417d30bb73ee9f609aa33646d49814e502b72f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=big+eyes+small+mouth+2nd+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091752af0d8c---74990720316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ec0ebaf30---40441322303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/80688350241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202108171626387777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/milazuzifisevitixeduxifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a696695264f---bejugarorafetigelibarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/niripetesese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dfd6164e0945930ec2172bb8f4d3214/88321831568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b84e7863f---53008287821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97872046514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa9a4a0d75---wafagomegigoxakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpr6aht6c7aicdushrub9nt2nu/21717471167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b07ee3a0---59958588242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///80710221156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/54174339357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/47116854928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/58438749163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/85704412696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/55630284117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852f09548d8---nijezenuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/28013685823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/xonasamasevaboxetodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/78681572913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/98437256875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/takesemokutu.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_off0000e955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE955 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001016c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016C 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 1403bcc6155d7388947a5d2fc2b985d83290eae3e8980fe30d6babe7ac6d5946
font_02_sfnt_off00011b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B71 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 60bc4a95f0fb9829d72255128036bce93482671a6058a3e27ca25c810ed0f19b