Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8570c2ec404a96e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 2a8c0ae2b63d47b0d6f9cfb614229db9 SHA-1: 6fe9532b970b7aad591c94c323e7e68e2d0c9f53 SHA-256: 8570c2ec404a96e9227d5154cbb0fbb0cfa26448423894e30a03bea753bd0fea
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics suggest it contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, likely used to host malicious PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, implies a callback phishing or tech-support scam by prompting the user to call a phone number for urgent issues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olf9t2a25talhntgljavu2080i/3448899592.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/wabaputoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/vuwonorefoluwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cgpgmk13o1d5heudhf8lh99k4/xoxoxegasiwexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/82500315855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/liziwafuxibabenepebuxisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/22494061075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/61893015611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03eef77524cf784ffa0194fb5b5d6a8/57482618919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/sokigunusewoxukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/97513516372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058abb7a98ecd7852565cdf800979d89/jupopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f20e9c27cf706eab533061f92ab8e47c/56030907124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a16d4714defca618849794af542782/biluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468929bbfcda2db45005ba8b9cba42ed/95255761893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empezo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17508134149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/80988650516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/fixifumafixapubokuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/83920614796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e058cbf7b---27154557405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/99145245904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/vitatalini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ab4be732c---93168851782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/22833788091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/49790838044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=lincoln+county+dispatchPDF 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_off0000e19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AD 18512 bytes
SHA-256: be48428eb39d8b8f12df9ccc192a455dd9ea078615244dee0b9f1ddf4e06b62f
font_02_sfnt_off000129ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AE 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 6d75e11066d9d34a999fb8213ffc629f89d5cded4a4be53698e5322cfe8ab172