Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8487736851e82049…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 72baec9cc0a90aa9508041f96afaabcb SHA-1: 38286d481595b59b08d995831238dbd0be1f4574 SHA-256: 8487736851e82049f4f34bb223a036c93d495f9030c59bb71d6f5d9060e6ef29
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and callback lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the callback lure heuristic strongly indicate a phishing attempt designed to trick users into contacting malicious actors.

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.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1e1590e76---kumefaketufososaxos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71ca98c721---24842712276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/10147138627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6c1e21a67---dekituga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a2b9adb27---lemivivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/94778969167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ad641bbae---13869293329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/34836451284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/99006914295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.khaosanpools.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23333507323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/dudixurelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28741088385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee1f1ca872---dagopiweloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b50e130252e8669e7520062f607cc02/pajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/34761791109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210601094657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/64741187165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c542d6373dd---figinuzokalivokebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e0c26d4718---82994090733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/12691154916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e2ced60da58523fbd1ff2dc456d8d5/buvakesibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d6ab48c07---tariwilafepuxetitonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17376cab6c---1090455117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///befegezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-online.it/public/file/34255418383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=rpsc+stenographer+syllabus+2018+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_off0000e0f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F8 11708 bytes
SHA-256: ff385c700be8534dcb2a9f4abeb09a4becdb2b5a1d9790f037d9032424ee7f40
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC87 20780 bytes
SHA-256: b439aeb0cfaafe085a380498fb509823d9687cce6f9f9b29e9a062bb7a8f710a
font_02_sfnt_off000133ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1