Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69f0b24e8e6cbbab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ca1aa2956d0ac41f329c488b3abc5fdb SHA-1: cf4b80db205bce2731f3e2b79c0228e2dc14dffe SHA-256: 69f0b24e8e6cbbabd84ed824362313be050db6a93ae8f3369281d59a98a19909
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the delivery of further malicious content via the linked URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085092f0bc30---98652902902.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/47240720960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31cnc194re23uasqujslmkjsf0/feraxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propellerclubsandiego.org/uploads/files/pidifenawawonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1273255576608f4f180ea80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikoxipanurizipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deed7e72082---71051357953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6878dfd0827b7c8a6168856919dbf9b/buwitalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ncr6lsibpf065b6cm8vef41m7/nililegejawideradana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/67664910791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752429d1424---xuxukivewudiminajibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1570fbc7b2edf4bc1af57fb363c12d17/fosewelunebimolareteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0574b2050c---luzaraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bea1b97ad7de4c5a627ecb40729f46a/27664089072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eeec9e4ece---42466592089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/45525253779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092752095208---34307550260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxufapokorikogiporovokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/49713110970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609767356371c---41520469411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmbnjum4akbn9m75g1slp3ual4/podefajuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/95155192692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc336aeeb---50075271972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tb9uuselukk9s12poei1npl92/86350350469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=english+sports+car+brandsPDF 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_off0000ed68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED68 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 18efd97f7c33ea716dfcd5e011063e2d54f1bb9923414286cd54cdfeba8a6958
font_01_sfnt_off000105af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC1 16968 bytes
SHA-256: a58fc13ce38d095144bc81da07cf9f389d25396b589c0132585c0de730198d1b