Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6877a38c52f45fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 13:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 522bef0a157239ac72b774ba86e1acd8 SHA-1: 303e81956d94a8610eb80f7f5058ea1f5c37426c SHA-256: 6877a38c52f45fbcaeb8452ceebebc55e990bdada914dfe5bc4cd702279482a6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic confirms the document's intent to trick users into calling a fraudulent number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff75bafb4---29737856881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4811950391---813856092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/wexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d98e8465---59638801394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53c6e79fe8---59019888088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/rixuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/59614599903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a989b9602ba3aebffb7b91b7a9e38a3/vijirotowopobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/78225183242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/29846186534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/78573312881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0130d99111d7e2211e5a7b87e826ab9/gutilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcrqto2hp3kv1av2vbv7iunkk2/55181767435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b0d723381---pikodiwisosugunurufejana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/50762206657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad956a67f02---92458634036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/13858543386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53730262965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/daromowidazozurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7df732f36ae4394f925a40e0dfd32732/61033297599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/nepugimusufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/38615917312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/dujaxiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/27877592845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+freeze+la+fitness+membershipPDF 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_off0000f6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F08 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6bd2fc6b7b02f6de025bc2e8221d514c18c5d38e9279ad1bd014c00626117f
font_02_sfnt_off00013cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF4 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 6eddbaae3970e86486d01ce06373aa8d48a7cc69e54b16828abf9f03c63d132f