Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 870cc977adc4d3cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 69e736d0173515584101fe2bb08d70d8 SHA-1: acddc38c61c41a48b50134d2bee06e8afcfc1fd9 SHA-256: 870cc977adc4d3cd11929307a6a068d47fea16195da7c55cb2b0278945c7a8db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with a link farm attack pattern, likely intended to facilitate the download of further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/saleforekojesironigonanum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9b8149186---fuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50e702a473fe1e795db0fd6422508a0/zegalijogezowajujovaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c11c5ed95---57104026977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/98123131011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/wovonoxewuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/51050612712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7753c8f50de83fb118b74401db81cc/72764066252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f1ed26556---tilulaxobokalevogevemuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/gegitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908ec323890---lovorunakapedesiratebaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da10e2738fd---19997699199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/22316102834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c512ea87899---18515128613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/49482990467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77969098290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/novik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1eda8b0d7e---zepokadirujenojolomeruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64a6a10948---gedunojakowani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735f7c12684---38149151703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/51163800987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/31662999724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18623521185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=el+existencialismo+es+humanismo+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_off0000cba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA3 19100 bytes
SHA-256: bd8a50cdc499e8191708cfd9c4bcdec6ed7a2c0a47809e804f699e8c35837add
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE9 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 72a9321408200e2bca62b3aa34e3c7b57b0b7a9cb8102b42c414aae4246c1d64
font_02_sfnt_off0001152e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1