Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68489fc171c7b27d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-28 04:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2c245b2aa6b9d2bf866ec51e680e6b93 SHA-1: 4c2c060b711174af5779f52b07c00d1dafae1354 SHA-256: 68489fc171c7b27dc1c9b8a81a7eead721c144ad929f9e8c14e29795921be282
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic indicating a 'callback phishing phone lure' further support a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27tnmv8opjr5d4pv92qklhjd25/rumoduvutavapuganusosuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5cffa9de2046e44aa378630d9f3fb5e/39587788504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609655de8ac36---12738884566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d61ca3d3e18---patimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/gabisudeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d74355df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6npit3tb3rknmk7l730cvf844/jononitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/77226932339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a0f9fa8f3cd4a64130c2a7bd7f9c82/19638601233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/zinaxoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1a578d544---potuzused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6ba9df42e---zigiwovefezakawujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/73594156277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/78987687111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37851deda94c1600aefeda2a119fdf7/gipedaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da66a7c696394071b362069ecb29665/fovapekisubobome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babe1ac1aa7---63914049313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kojdr9cii4tsaot55r3pb65t91/womisalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/kirusewopaberuvafemabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20217151411423739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/sanamivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/nifuzatuvupilafawevefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=can+we+charge+dualshock+4+with+phone+chargerPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/wepevopegizalamusonoji.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_off0000f455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF455 17420 bytes
SHA-256: ff7e0912195090953d8a3e937f395e5a36383bfae2ab9cdc060efc81b19a342d
font_01_sfnt_off000121e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E9 11180 bytes
SHA-256: a98d50878d5ccf8ce6bd3443708e419853acb5f314d27ab93db6bc0624f1017f
font_02_sfnt_off00013be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1