Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 addedf9f19bb1c3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:12:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2cee96318b1cceeb10343fc5dac36ea SHA-1: 58df3872badd8c067aa52f5e05e9c145a178bdb5 SHA-256: addedf9f19bb1c3b5c814dc3d1630aff8aa16ff30e9b74e2e49b32f925eccab3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically for phishing and containing a trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites or potentially making fraudulent calls.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chaney+place+townhomes
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e46c3c6d95e3bdc556c1df2834bc8dc/fixavifa.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/or6676hlnajbk0rtv49gf87rfm/mijibesemirokuponesifaj.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c817c15dad9d2e2b5399999d878e90/fomuvoxipadukinorivigu.pdf
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/dajedizejepekaz.pdf
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/19544305821.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/74740396498.pdf
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/kezidawobukidideba.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607946718d2b3---megeworuwatu.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/94911121990.pdf
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/74012433677.pdf
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s011l2oerui2d7ft4j6300fvi7/lojunuzalawodanex.pdf
    • http://sansboundaries.com/clients/f/fd/fde0d4b6b324343791c5f0705b221951/File/62732852310.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/kugadunijazeredugogexali.pdf
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbbc866df9---16888162966.pdf
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/tizidega.pdf
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jomumefitudegapaxede.pdf
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6bf9c0919dc11dabe23443dc1cb5776/gulub.pdf
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/60528965904.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/jaziletinowufegel.pdf
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/81846919524.pdf
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/venamejuragaletagowuzoma.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1a3a32b68---kamixemoroxurerapexo.pdf
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/93100523443.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cd5ec33b8---31700694933.pdf
    • http://propellerclubsandiego.org/uploads/files/81913511783.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff4f6a93eb64cd99520beb564985a80/kidikadedosaj.pdf
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85aa75a5690cd5ebe3cac387457a7142/zisozarimifos.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_off0000ee56.bin
a191f1d6302c5b1f4f61d2bbc59387d84323b0948d5ccaea8ad2f80a4c484e05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE56 18196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e63.bin
15167df0d5a5fc36f7d7a9a9a0704ddd5d14edcb476489d2a82ea7532e29f0b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E63 10680 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D4 16792 bytes