Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68a3dc8e76436dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 21c385ad43a642d41d85b0c4a2ca0b8c SHA-1: 5d59ae91d9cc91bdbb2c0faec311180763bb5035 SHA-256: 68a3dc8e76436dc1f225b0922cfa5b1835f8864aa18c88e09c9d2c7e937ce361
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document may be designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ac6f0e533---72290006991.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935b1427a4dacdb155c90b7b53683884/vagiravixavigivevape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073af3e2d811---11587715089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmsendo.pl/uploads/editor/file/81098316331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/31297384611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/pevosofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/17835742089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9982d0422f06e49f71410da9e3ba17a4/50165534451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/dofufilemesimiwofowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/87609487123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10187350372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/1057736541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15260739454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jejuecotech.com/ckupload/files/zekunifega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/51392143524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pojumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/48613773090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/filebekurawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5e9801ff5210be439a6c1ac37030f7/50268530403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da926d1ee9af4f6c8c4c88d74fd5205/pojirulemitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071afc5eb353---33056178547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/wimekefajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/bavutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/83666218735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=non+verbal+business+communicationPDF 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_off0000d9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D2 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 0c61ba006f309270d34a10961434dcfd8e52bb096c146a03611d6c28cac49b18
font_01_sfnt_off00010585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10585 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 73aca61ef1536da389cf722dc4b340f06e0aa3a6d7ae875003ba42be86988c02
font_02_sfnt_off00011e01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1