Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 919ff695fc3f4311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2d8f80c836eb99dde982f79402fc2767 SHA-1: b80ccff10eea2ffdb1d751b7762c6adf90c6b017 SHA-256: 919ff695fc3f4311dfb68e985666e3d12aaf7963f96d2bcf48246a686db94728
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates it may also be used in callback phishing schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609064beab869---38530396048.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/60112143866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/75178077117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8281bcff57ef72fd66feac7e7c6ca91f/nokuvedalaledelojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5043s5kec1hijcfs2dqpa3qdf/58794017559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ennsj5q95sn82efgun3da9hb7k/67968858349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/negulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m65l74nopj9o776298cs4c6cn3/fipuvedibusunetofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/jubuxajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e53e0a19da19842a8cb2a65fa9d5e93/51650496002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2a07fdc5245d7f7b30051a0c4da9aa/xikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d340aa77cd6---28226988041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/76961489941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/19749115988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwhs79.com/clients/867100/File/79526212015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/ridasadexoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/5529191827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d16e23a07d---85670257167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/35884400364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed5a301e595af48272adbf7e6009df4/46891229173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8cbdbd610---linodibuguzozopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3214300d6436f5034347e586bcc906d/12999189900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbfe78a033---3095821508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+watsons+go+to+birmingham+full+book+online+freePDF 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 34ac68b641891e432c3d714c6dc6ac240ed21c299a3ed19accd4e26f00eca545
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A2 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 5b39aa70f5487074317e07921dc5e82388eb7e0661b7ba19557bf39dbc7bd4f6