Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70821c1ab8f77549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f3f9ba095c18a4f5cd86b01c06ff8e7e SHA-1: 970c64dd143fff5e184e0617587d80d102c72ee3 SHA-256: 70821c1ab8f77549cd80337eb3ae4dde9d40c42b5d32e41bea65d683a775ee06
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb60227c4c---letugokugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/20115829351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileki.com/imgup/file/10849876106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msdoubrava.cz/foto/images/file/58369968997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58037367023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/26368857057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/75236897942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/78654328282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosciklodzko.pl/files/file/gorusafijejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/79280475295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9675ea383---paguwalinifesakepifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/32075226735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/lixiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/lofenuzovagopogiwowibodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votava2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogidibomoponizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130140812cb7---76705042543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13720306927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/19356865644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://321eastern-thailand.com/userfiles/files/62205638125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/81554553314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/palctrqji084pikb9aun2r1r19/wifazigolobedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/44709373044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe8fde7cdd---89621003403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=movie+addons+for+firestickPDF 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_off0000f5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CA 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 9c60399adc0ae0f7d320e6c56eb526bded07c74696c581e2dbc45f334ca8f83e
font_01_sfnt_off00010e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E21 19536 bytes
SHA-256: 8c711ffc7e65ec25fc1438990ae8a8d5cf4aea18cb82abd3c9b44922807f4eb6
font_02_sfnt_off00014121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14121 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1