Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75adc691228261ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c9c51c54b4cebfbb6be0454f5ad2ace7 SHA-1: 2e5d49bb3c3edcd604892037a0be5bd1db1b63c8 SHA-256: 75adc691228261ceeb78826806ac878cf20a3c0e86d808975e6a7ade84896988
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggest a phishing or scam attempt designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content or revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///gibididumasusazojajak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/99747773965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/petimiselagifoxuxaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/960889599610f1b299169d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/11560063116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/36084732442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/40099144333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/fowaxemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c449df7913e---torukesafoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/gefuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9033e0bd1---57720109851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cdbad9500---10098616211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/zafawobomosidabisakojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704d54bca91---gusopurewudupusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f672882f3271b44025933e3e737c97/fizejejoxejukebavawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fn2o5iunr50sibhsk19vckmcse/85795408916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da8808468dad169941c7ac7a7c39952/1362088640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64ae969bef83763a171526dc02a0ec4/68469061285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/meberopemofoputubolepafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6fab6910b64fd2de04be6c4ca537a0/vumotemabavijozaxumuvizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/sevewozujada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b03a41464ae53c1360bfd7ae1f9235/limixabigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/gewupuzapido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdjuchuan.com/upload/files/21989836050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=great+west+life+claim+forms+pdfPDF 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_off0000fa0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0D 18644 bytes
SHA-256: 23a02235aea0132d25eaf42d89d044443f1b7beb005fc0d4a82689959d7ffc44
font_01_sfnt_off00012a3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14255 10800 bytes
SHA-256: a6ad85233f3b3f5485ef7410a15eb00cecdc567632f96ef32d47e9f3aa0aac8e