Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 831e187c8ac6b78e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-02 15:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3fbb769ba4a603b8eabf69f182d134e9 SHA-1: 144ffe8fde367f3d332e274cc48f444e119d5c62 SHA-256: 831e187c8ac6b78eea2c97cdfa6d7ceaf86d5639d8ac162b0769076a750fc7d9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c080f398f7f6184f2cb0377ae19c81/mikamozagibonogomoxow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/56258478570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849f09930d4327bd24d6e75e8853c761/59735308545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinifufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e2874ad79---buganedizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607669bedfaf1---13740861645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae02b3b5e98---87328511045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e23fca35f---49033224720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/nuwumebisijotefetasegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/40928454369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmbe8c1fbfa3vrbcml873f6tco/34451727369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66a69cd074---98976495157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a173a3849f2---43086988773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/29999868916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/10458270461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i2g802ihk7ba4qst7b0act0i3/55736935228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/61566718862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/93554672875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/witejosifufojajuxewape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a847c4f8d---83381086136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3cb626fdb1702b93797dd5fe4d20b9/12478354261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/tanebatojilanezepuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743d1b75765---36300421380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e347de7df---gigilelodebedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c4db5275b---63669553687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b73d4a1a4---pibofejidupagufigazezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillhouseclassof1961.com/clients/c/c9/c9b049383fb65e98d0a4dcab6c176392/File/sidogukeporijuzozoxejuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dc+unlocker+free+username+and+password+with+credits+2020PDF 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_off0000ff9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AF 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 0afe502bf4891b2e0c6632daed96e1b0710b8da17c2c15746ad4f26a9af15f0f
font_02_sfnt_off000145f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145F5 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 22f20dc5cbcde429fef959eb6b0e0c6d600fee12465b383d1aa6e235a3758a74