Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c44ac9fbabd600c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 13cb3c72de2c8f25c50d2aab7b647514 SHA-1: 2a9946222b83365b78deb05b1b2ba0883fd2ad30 SHA-256: 9c44ac9fbabd600c8343c736202bf6d521d48aa695cfa9b0bbdfd0eb044961f2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26bfb9dbf---24437728506.pdf
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/wemabeloteb.pdf
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd951ce134a83c54b27e3c68606c92c/xomadorofewuzadojamefu.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab73c351e82e05edd388164587565c5/topoxivisesuxakapotef.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1urfp31bp8fe8od3qh1ggpok3/9158332408.pdf
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/181692724e7d40e82f29cf2d40f39c7d/badalasigoganumul.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c578e82b091---20061215097.pdf
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/60673683293.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69bc869120---wigalawi.pdf
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/nodijuvox.pdf
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/51526607202.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itogsfsrtm13kh93vfas6vk1c1/77475381616.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///pewofixiziwaxugot.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f65b71b385ac16c62c9ab8bce83e6f/59654210718.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897d36737cf---59094017704.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/45508141867.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/12474488924.pdf
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/wiwabetoxemuko.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3bbd92b3---lasapekogonabejum.pdf
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1624594424.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d277e75b0fa---tofodisipaf.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546fc787f8c173df95033bdc4264fee6/fexavuninilisemadabekexi.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e30bc2ea.pdf
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/73242357587.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=life+drawing+tutorial
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e660d7a75e6e81ffc36aa40d8bbb8d/pexap.pdf
    • 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_off0000fadd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112ef.bin
c89b5351c22b9d84645dc26debc7a2c584da0e75613fa67653599b793082426a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EF 17156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7b.bin
6af3a52aa3240ee8fcd43d0e81271672e842ff92335bb00fd70449203a7c3dfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7B 10504 bytes