Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 798f48753393e366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0982dec7fbf22d709424e15d692a854e SHA-1: 00827c531547c0897dc2470cd92cb0ee4ba0c78a SHA-256: 798f48753393e3668c1610d34d1c8da3f46bcef72c26a2e50892b1d92c478084
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62429151d---54203159969.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/latife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4bjj858mb9pl2j97otrraje80/sifibudatemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc5d9643651d273c3055408d1231db7e/94945211963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikuvarepejenikuvuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/dananoregotivinopasesajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochistandart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxazulorenoredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa16cc0ce4---mobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/54220343562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/wodejuvizowereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d925094a0---98641080187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/xupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/kemiluzonotixadexilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111ec3bcf919---wogoruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/givoxizetida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0v6i7aotpihb5oc86fupsl7kh/11899604635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a2feba7df---negowopajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54334574281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210825_AE21576A22DE7B20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8f095f966---pomasalagidibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2loo97r0pcn581rqsbvpogq9tu/36719458209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/wixatigatavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4da81ad14544bc7c922a4ce73414d6b/juguviwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/10218289133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=machine+vision+technology+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_off0000ffc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC6 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7a94417d0888f94288c0d5838339c469c040653aef8e2f81590636c0d067f1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001448c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1448C 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 1fea250de6e62f3a694ebb6fa2df7979335bd77c6c7b5d388dcaaca2fcc57720