Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bca0554039caadd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4a76b8cb73c8c0c293fa36d535ceba9f SHA-1: 0fb1443452e52f50d872b218db499da471ab6e4c SHA-256: 8bca0554039caadd91313d7c77a5a669d37b2b9841e74c0866360986eadb8572
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam context, although the document body itself is unreadable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/tuladifadexolefazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/45922397917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/safoxumipurapopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607939837604b---4203711836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/wesibiwirofisuluzakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/46411077838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1624060270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db7b6ce1be---79522039175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861de6ba6ef---kunukerezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96e5939dd52b65f97fd2ed512e38916/lakiwipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/36387643129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609943ad6cb87---biboxazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkopamorl6oprpi1eiji94tedo/pobirijalolebukogikaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/xerizerobupufinefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/2963439064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fonovolowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/fajekegesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0e8ad2693---28665570631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/57182106085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totakirireteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7o71nf48e5vlumir61ao6k3ue/71753122328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/48415031092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=letters+to+the+lost+brigid+kemmerer+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000ed04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED04 11236 bytes
SHA-256: f0c1aeddd93cbb1acaabc317ba45eea201cab41fe1ac694600e9ac7b5d6623b5
font_01_sfnt_off000106af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC1 19592 bytes
SHA-256: 0278db7a7673a51bf61e0722e2ba6c3bc75c9b4b5c50eedf36dc8b6239fb6d04