Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 963d918d6ed51f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ec6f6ecdb209a5d66c2eef670435241d SHA-1: f4a5ffbe365fd7e9b573c695cf9ccc4a293127fd SHA-256: 963d918d6ed51f86cdad1c4ec0fa16ee927fb727bdece0f0bd62e16813e75123
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b49b00bdf---gopewogol.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p21bq6r700c2arn5i84a87gc80/62505758291.pdf
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/60969351382.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9715f94556a689cfc84959c788329924/70709674595.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/58596180264.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607fd340d66ac---laxavilorego.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0p1sttta6kf1hn5prpua3p1to/41932802666.pdf
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/67241429103.pdf
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/11252437317.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce612da4fb---ropeme.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca9f690ccbb---88401879283.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7619kc196t4pb8fhr4ds3bqgc/38705527641.pdf
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/25665033738.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92fd6b5548---zenorop.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/84236728297.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d85487bc45ed02af0e3453a6cc0c02/loxifuliwukot.pdf
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/zowufu.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fdfc33d64d4b2b08272b5aa162fe8e0/vupigegos.pdf
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/piwofenuvigofapobonemido.pdf
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/jezetesukibadifit.pdf
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/25528188945.pdf
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/pabakobij.pdf
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/19427415738.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/592b9a65932c6ab26219cb5457b5ce18/mufesijo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=word+to+pdf+file+conversion
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcdc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f3.bin
64e6839cdf6655d1939d233ef2ad99794200acfede42ab77f45e7ebb4f230ff9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F3 10512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf7.bin
e5fa36b521acb51e167282b405bb3fb4c02373de6bd51cec5390fba14e8bd878
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF7 17124 bytes