Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8167cd196c17de0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 21:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c541a7b5336ee4158a9fe5e779bf7a54 SHA-1: 9984b0aa9808ac2d194e8cac918eb9039d50a55c SHA-256: 8167cd196c17de0f912e67473ab9ca1ece1554b93fa04ca60776445e50e7dd13
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, further supported by the presence of numerous external URLs. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86bj4cupo3supr948sb1oftab3/21206301166.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0is3rpph22ik5b1915bu1h5d9/gewodesagodunivosexitegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsrealtyvietnam.com/upload/files/87971425147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/govogikozavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37803e75f4---72694277235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/56810207058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a1e2998d4---mojawufulivilivutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/55773048629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/munodijowudokanatumavase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/wamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fc30cbb9d28ecc3107e5972ace6d80/xixogimoxoxogirorewapexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4278c459533298a8ba792476b75377b2/bebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823162ad7e0---90314526231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cba1457be83705db5bccb76c2a3dfc1/1653867561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkk2v9rj9ait2q8b2hcp9vqgk3/4190955083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changecn.net/ckupload/files/30603363814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba97a6f370---40272603956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/wurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/44987174371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798220f1e77---vofiwadusitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/lowapuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapmanhighschoolclassof1968.com/clients/c/cb/cb1fed5110c07f199f416a264ee6943c/File/davarolofisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/melake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/16406201772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/vexebegadozojowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/kaberuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dunham%27s+gift+card+balance+checkerPDF 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_off0000e48a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48A 11168 bytes
SHA-256: bcef19d07089e840edf26fbc7bb1c56fe231a93016603c24f960ed23cca49e8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4C 17328 bytes
SHA-256: a0a31b772188e818ffa95f36d591cc06de4258a8d6ec6d93d350873f1abe9c85
font_02_sfnt_off00012b8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1