Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acd190a9a5bf8d29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: e3f42fb751c2f6ea6d625e46cbea8f87 SHA-1: bb6e4ad9326ab2d8fabf27c6e1083e00ad22a456 SHA-256: acd190a9a5bf8d2988fcf44c447b332839dfaa4d4ef665f3ea2988389ae9c486
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or callback scam. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the detection of a callback lure suggest the document's purpose is to trick the user into interacting with malicious external resources or initiating contact with an attacker.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+mitty PDF link annotation
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ae7d67884---bigajilenumalipixibile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/47793647278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84dc78fbdc---rasolotazarunepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba589d0bad---87408254570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph138mk7e2bst6hkaqd0ea8o8g/61581968122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/gagafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/229049675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/fijefuserug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01162619f4---75001437737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/79935750420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbac916433c---jurenirowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heider.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f12b7c12f96061436df3d10c905523/79761146899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/69412635940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/birikamesekigilodebimate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084914aa4548---pozuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbd42d1d40---fezesuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/wewatojiramuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec0d17655b849bf53c8223a90a7789d/84038475094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562a14452d4d311de5f543b34485599f/39434677323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0591544c9---gopumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/34487427317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/74300892656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/57003003644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/36721018843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18874873948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50E 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 399221d2ac2b8af8e05cb8cd86959e2e2934ed1f66320a0fabed167a8bac9489
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC72 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 8a077e556b39178cca98a6b7f7b9a957f9ac12035a85c8068d5887eec4400945
font_02_sfnt_off00012da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1