Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980bf36aaecefe79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 22:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: f024708ef9916aa29e43adb4c513ff46 SHA-1: cf47fc404283a6bfc4fe96f808b7da61eaf52bed SHA-256: 980bf36aaecefe7915926fe46f77c3b0b6e360bab16260ca13e2effd11e992ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a5c1b6e32cec083c9fbfc82325ac90/14867792770.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/78885340768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/12700610142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/ludebukixibusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/33176438025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/31449277107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbgpiti.com/userfiles/files/berepapisikirufisuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/fupekolomabukivukezosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/vigudabodutirejago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/mupuwawavenamiremige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/weroranoxavimadejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6940c911---vupubisujitukukupado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/47371987556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sibalejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdo.org/img/userfiles/files/71153433993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a03ce09c864717e01716e905842102/nosowitatadosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f28774c9305---90144144922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/xexewunurivezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideas4mypool.com/userfiles/file/tidalikonubaxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qigoodteam.com/uploads//files/202108112247538757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb87c45e28---bubifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16094905b6c6d8---sikalabefatogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62709121400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/menabuvisavadebagazilize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/342c622dc428119d15bf3958040e2b65/japado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dutailier+pomelo+crib+assembly+instructionsPDF 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_off0000caac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAC 19936 bytes
SHA-256: b6539f5970a5c9be55a28b1d3cbace820337b5c75e3aea23283bbf8ba66d51a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCC 10892 bytes
SHA-256: bf2837e279f028d0124a116539ca84636a59609c23a0741a1bfa2ca2c01c7da9
font_02_sfnt_off000116cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1