Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b15c7b96c61008f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d01f61b4b0368036fdb55748816eddbd SHA-1: 928386766e6c72b2fc28bff6650043692445203f SHA-256: 8b15c7b96c61008fbef3a993a83a7b77ec1e134144151ef55e27bddb964fffb7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or scam attempt, likely aiming to trick users into visiting a compromised URL disguised as a driver's license inquiry.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a535e9940044d41227851bd0c8c7230/rujimozepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/79352117876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/1494235512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/14137707024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac31626822---safigebozane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/xogeruzepekunoneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902051837586142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f425dc1995---81373326225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofiwojawajuvunemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b818a548c2---6760332950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/93094115273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076371e34879---70471651523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastgood4cheap.com/clients/4890/File/59087469700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161257e52ede6f---79228414024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f5829b20d003e805e1168ad75fe88c/zoruladanixebagigodaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qa-whg.net/upload/files/widazile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/91863084403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/38677093203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97783481091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/zadezopomapojapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/11872285444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/lefixexaxasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a022507c58338ce10d6fa115c855541/podixodumaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/livudiravug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cfeb36340---pejabowunoporaparas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/59652719932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=driver+license+not+receivedPDF 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_off0000c659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC659 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE70 10268 bytes
SHA-256: a107839457c4627111f41d6856ce0423c534eef1353783fb31f240c242b25f4f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A8 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 8148b8dc5d675e70fd605364dafab7f8d2b7a360b4e735d06258730f379d2c9d