Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69c84c26ab5944de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 16:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 307b1540375c486751134164f8563a98 SHA-1: f0f04368f9dc44583668321f6874ba950216a0dc SHA-256: 69c84c26ab5944ded3b6982575830274fabbff7139ee5f534f9d62cef90993cb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, a common tactic for distributing malicious files. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://timebymtm.com/upload/files/jijubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/valetimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/4005338134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e872d35e3---masubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39mk80dehpiru50a2uccp4o6go/58216815208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7f138celpp7sdlsmkfci1d2f0/nevajexenoganokuxofadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/5051475765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/galusagagugebafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192cb0a9e2f9f9c6859f1c5c99d15fde/88670745994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68j9pjikp1m38s7gd4kkv8prj7/3174053780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/setuzalizagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bebf07e39---63782942045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judge1960reunion.com/clients/873273/File/bodakudujomikazirokano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdf294bcb2---82233909441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94642e92c4efd931063c0c8adc3e426/vetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/48357388142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92102598356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd8fc06f44---wuvijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da0cd4ccdbd---93993859056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed26976892a---47204271924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/rebewosilemibusavetixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkgbq4b7611mpa5lqu1gri7mea/95262169344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f598945207e0aa4ea69913c99672a64/vefuwelemuzolurozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegedelunion.com/clients/76066/File/ruzizeguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=centrifugal+casting+typesPDF 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_off0000f5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F2 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 958bae953a52615b6e754dd09cb3857d645ffa0d75222a5fe10a1dad43b810fb
font_01_sfnt_off000121a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A3 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 74683a3f38e0a37d18f1d8950b690b1dfa95c5fd03da6dad71ebac25ca92c8ad
font_02_sfnt_off00013aab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1