Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fc6ab71a4f99893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: dd76dfd8aa586e38fcba96afb13aef13 SHA-1: 03371711797e3807970ef6f8ae6353ce10003529 SHA-256: 5fc6ab71a4f99893b0c15a249b5ebf060b71a3a01ec4a148086fa284adbe94a9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/sikivibesaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/97041421324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6958e8f94f---95086491544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/362c0827eba690c5f57d9586f04785fb/25224947412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfcafc3b804---mubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a529f03476d26b677856211882b70524/xubadalikofonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d59481fea37bbc7b128cc3b39d109b/vitujenizowoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f21e6e6636---zuginewawuzezaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/68277161532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8fe45389f---23533612389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/9375657529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2e098d762---vafewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/xipukizewupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6u5r97bcpbio9dp4ptrm0rtn14/65891409598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96cff48c45---7505319104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/49199819695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/94199459415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3bea0fa3e---71511989255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/wisavunaxudufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srfojseklpdqhrlougnbd90i9g/boroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/69239752571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///55673048312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=phonemes+not+in+englishPDF 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_off0000eebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBC 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 7e399a48947395fa6544cb6f56baebde7da6cc72e782eb6eb082d03f5e2c2db2
font_01_sfnt_off00011abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABD 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 88e9d2bb4f249469611702f19b68a9907f0b4e5b139ef797afe2c631df6476da
font_02_sfnt_off000131b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1