Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62546a48381882a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:25:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc8eb5ed3b71d72b3d4172ae2682bd4c SHA-1: 8493df969fa094844a898d7b5e28ea3e02050cb1 SHA-256: 62546a48381882a81f9e2fd81bb96166cf4ae5881caa3c6f6d3b8ac88a4a1d98
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, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the heuristics indicate it contains a link farm and a callback lure, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into contacting a malicious actor. Several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting were extracted, likely serving as landing pages or hosting further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=civil+service+values+and+ethics+in+public+administration
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/62394850595.pdf
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92d4b634f18231ea98218405ccfddd3/narul.pdf
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395c5b4a4a7604cb2e1ab61600ab612c/63608451864.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73d7a11396---34876166619.pdf
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/kufumawudewadafudak.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f888fc39e9---34071342753.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093948714012---nozujitagomepujaf.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9293edf14dbur5lb9kt1ch2mp/81811316319.pdf
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l73a86kf1hbs7klu9jr6ln0h6/51033403961.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6p1fa55dqdv5g5e26g64897u7/43300262442.pdf
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/60976574616.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56adc43dc7---29070832839.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/14569023528.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0d2.bin
8c182523e0ec1ff0352cb0eba73acf2183a6f7660c6b6e63872abd76eb51f354
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D2 11116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a59.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001226b.bin
07343b007eae40ba6eacc70bc7029b824e08c0e68c4715f8001fad0900697eec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226B 17384 bytes