Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 904321646c9bc5ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 71533271e1442668deff889fdf76ea4a SHA-1: ffc5eff1181ab9f0aaaf73e496e838a8e9744fae SHA-256: 904321646c9bc5ad56f0cd956d5d035976bb8098a9f89ea2f5f7061d3480e13b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing a link farm and a callback phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a distribution mechanism for malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a malicious phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbdd065cf6---60199699409.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/60949511369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/94039363416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1a9ae0cf8---65468491033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuuts.mn/uploads/assets/32483252797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/mebaxobizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/buxetusajexujogiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/fudebupilulobilaxuzuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemmurad.com/webroot/img/files/22857896151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/9268431826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db1c9f639803d0665ed55a71a02f80b/71364271713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133584dea7fe---19667186914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/zosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614805b88e41d---xowuviwasuduwikakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/15781338214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/lexugapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgg5htd6mlf8v424gblkr1l5i7/36150472190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/xolida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/91593843690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/dezagajodidozavudisedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/tudadawakutemekura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/35499717180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://special-pharma.com/upload/files/30594170921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6221766e1a9b2a34e72f7514a4ba8cbc/kidonewivitamowefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oldd.adventurenetbg.com/userfiles/file/30402285010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+lite+sensitivity+gyroscope+settings+2020PDF 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_off0000d87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87C 19036 bytes
SHA-256: 70bf6c7d91ffdad6f7cb07fdd873ef5c0084c81d8e5586f8bb3cdd5f0eb89a62
font_01_sfnt_off00010a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12266 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 09387fac080637bfaf4a4eb426161842910f77b46416c64fe4f7df1f9caa4d8b