Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eedce5d10c74146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 11:47:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b673902ffe9b23b45f38931ea51e623f SHA-1: cda62856e25a4261208088c7ddbeb4bc2a0cee1b SHA-256: 5eedce5d10c741460fb24430c6b7f5471114af3e75ffad153a329f0cc78cb9ab
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, likely to obscure the true destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext by prompting the user to call a phone number related to billing or security issues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=immigrations+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7643438497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/29075272880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bb5671b6e98d79c2d39dbccf3328f67/89625409564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/84111045945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/20938293889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/tuzuzetesogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/lusezitazejurupekerozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u031giben5gaamqclc9p05t1q6/24907000707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/93718671040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/50341502137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m5ngqht0ae67cuuesukmgjsq9/foporeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bae2b5d5d---67093120680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9b7dd8e2d---70009698926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/kosifosapotadolivefize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/jetisunujevajawulakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cf29414db---1625688504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_A1337D00637CF08C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e0d0115e1---88813028374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/kaguzitumazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e86de960---45872801717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/91787195818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep52l6aor63is19i28aror8otl/vuzawikipipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d93a68d88b5e4ff13c56d9f86f4e908a/jirigurejojujemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/97228133152.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_off00010c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C52 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 5e44016d8a4e73bf90a2c8c62578ff0c7f6d69c5da0960175989730381153036
font_01_sfnt_off000139f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F5 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 8a9ee27ea2737ed1da8813868ca0305c5694df7230f9ab33363d257afb69e63a
font_02_sfnt_off00015272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15272 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1