Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 702b9c3715404972…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 15:04:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 582915d9b1a15449b99dbadb6d323969 SHA-1: 46c17cbcc4717cea72c878fa0d8e583283e4bb94 SHA-256: 702b9c371540497247c5b1501dd7721b388e42f30255d1583a830c5f6e12a481
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, indicates a callback phishing attempt, prompting the user to contact a phone number for urgent matters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d967bf27c---nesilugexilumaso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/17420194881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5hbaf42llonool466chjspkm6/54528266844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/60721328295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/gawevaxikeginukopukinumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/60429959135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/98352453979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210526_200010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62369641256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/ponakazutuzatazajaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06bb11bba0497f162bc0f672a5b85d36/34456375970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9307257jncq1mtk8hidc6t21j/kagasudavukekitibajuwapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/pimololipipoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/sunazisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/powiguxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n34u6sckpiqqik13foq6qlou00/97131195135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/57066850458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083beb841240---jevazuxegefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cb7b7f8e9---29249786427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/19884225788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd8884e662---misijovivoxokane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/nunozuzemowewovirire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/33868907082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/52801855157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/24401084662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/67695853414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+vehicle+verification+onlinePDF 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_off0000c13f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC13F 14768 bytes
SHA-256: a1134a6cfadd5a7bb8ab058c30264c20adfe9ea516a8ca6df37aa426e3743220
font_01_sfnt_off0000e69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69B 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 290ae489ef78c51d05fdafa48b85f582d6db3fb3e19059436c264320d2c8555b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1