Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6612dec50e72ab74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-23 12:15:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d761c7a6e802a92a40170c0f41ad66c3 SHA-1: 531a390024920a182626fad06eb0b6f812112cb9 SHA-256: 6612dec50e72ab7440a6cc685507412777a8e4879332f7779331a594d16c8eaf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, including one hosted on a known compromised WordPress upload storage. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with phishing or tech-support scams. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/78838358860.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/33159118446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610027cb68768---61392506927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f4093013585d0296a506c615050e62/bipisobojusogalaxexujobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607596898186e---nepokonozumobupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330ef9dd3c9124bcb2084b3e6f029433/romisagibunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61592cdf31---nelaboxewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n666c70mf24o2eatbgtq62cmj4/62986954055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ba355516e---10834047703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7v88i6hf2m0kjrirocf3nr7fgd/55270629689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/93923075016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/62869937719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/47711109335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/49896838850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.com/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/78956654941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrkgvpcljtkov4u35lj70qer62/repalafezimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3189a2c8c1b3c5f69f8ee356d93f125/lenunavuxalekixipanoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/24751556860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/6619343026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/kuxoluduvebivopuwunarodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowdertraviscoats.com/clients/7/74/74ec8bd2877f4db8d0b9f56bae0111c3/File/17828199672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/pabogakosovivoxoloruzage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/46749210843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ba+after+12th+commercePDF 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_off00010157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10157 10416 bytes
SHA-256: fabc9b11e3af8952f25ba28373f0ca9401e3039efede257bd399204a150c54e2
font_01_sfnt_off00011916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11916 17736 bytes
SHA-256: e0e014b1f565fc4b63cbf73c1161f59b68d42bd86de6cecb05bd914ae5472a9e
font_02_sfnt_off0001480e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1480E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1