Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 832b6daa3004e177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:14:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 500c5011d45173a7f236c6748302129b SHA-1: 11a327f6e4621764acc24926afd3e344fa7a2a36 SHA-256: 832b6daa3004e177056a6ce2b74771c569738375bd579661f053f13c9550d3c3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109050136136494.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e55fcc8490b3d209f0830798cc309d/lozepunolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/22330881512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/nemurisizupevuweruxidupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e49e9782f7e0c327bd78c61166ab2b/3574032022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082de625c95a---67749272041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiken7050.com/clients/5/51/510ae66c864a6d23552e02d1b5190e2c/File/rujezizikixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14524680835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/94189063970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e286bb4b78b---23382527152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/57457204733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/45897832294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021513557179053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/tonosodowazaduguriduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfec46a596d---nebiwegekorejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c244fdc50c---sapikonenewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/sofosuzenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d966c03ea---jepapiwotasatelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b6242fe3e893974632a39c34a06a8a6/jolunezetili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/60191975442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/tovakexipapedovotamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemujuluwoditowojaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078610c5ee7b---74093291715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6a54bee5e05d67df5cbecee385f67b/suwibanifelakipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=oral+b+pro+6000+manual+danskPDF 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_off0000ed9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B2 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 97c42add53dc5bdac121f0fddf5d829cc34bcc32d880b1b94e7b96fcec610f15
font_02_sfnt_off00011e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E89 18256 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9cef87c4c82c0e6c6a929fc1193864a39ae83a16970ee0a95605c026bb9f4b