Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 676efcf4078615e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e0e740a989e70d839633bff0945c51e4 SHA-1: daceea73cf84db2be37cac125dad256f9fbba929 SHA-256: 676efcf4078615e9ab2e5fa2353e3fb4f2f3aff1401cbb145dd2e800f22cdf5e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a callback lure indicates a social engineering tactic to trick users into interacting with malicious actors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/wabelemozegeku.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0552782d40---19022692976.pdf
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62041e627cec7bcdf927ab5dec9acbb8/wopagomunabaximigezogugo.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a08c326845---11371390641.pdf
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/90433678521.pdf
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9c544cc1a9ded47b7f8dc9608506e1/lufuvakexemugelol.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6cd9370569---91461507615.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/62260197531.pdf
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///wanagunowirilapukidodid.pdf
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67085334a06da3d0f5ed4af9458deb62/dasodewefimumimoj.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f1f542f1---kodabuximizibog.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608131634dec9---dasafazanegewuwevilaw.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4eaa9eabcb---worowepilu.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/vilisenetizoju.pdf
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f4eb1aa50---30014023531.pdf
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/rokosisobowewezuboseko.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3e9214f45e90ffdd12c4277bbf8503/zopujuf.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b535324a42---miliguzetomov.pdf
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/xezarumozamolikeliruzavir.pdf
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/13723065596.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732d7b50a0e---zoletizomowedusixobaje.pdf
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802faad8c16---bovemena.pdf
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/gozoni.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atrgajdo7heu6olcbc1t2rvkaj/sarisatipiguvomujudit.pdf
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090394335589---86520770682.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=simple+curve+sample+problem+with+solution
    • 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_off0000e3c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdb.bin
91c42d2d1adad760f401583fafdb4642a48c6ab3e6e1a3868390a4bafb4af01c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDB 11108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001155e.bin
90ef13415dd6640feeca3ca3148fe3b5f8414c008e0690e9b6e52172982fa15d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155E 17288 bytes