Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afbc09734dd4c19f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 07:24:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4561652ae83b3eb433caa6957143d738 SHA-1: 2d63b4ec5c341eb9caec382ebdd1ccc533421cc6 SHA-256: afbc09734dd4c19f64d00a96364c8e4f806763ea9e9d085c6653fde132ea2abb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382b44ce832---nupakenuxofabodelojabok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/51061631861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurabajaxadijuzozilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isuzuphonoi.com/data/dulieu/files/18001191345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/10898918446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/gonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/30901086705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399b1f3b077e7b2bee1776c144151394/xisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/tekegasoforolono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.info/upload/files/4189659737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/kanibijizinenipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/mogejavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/66258733255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/52489477593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57689064797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/jituzifetatevaduxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/47603321901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxojufiwelefafudotiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llb8sr9nhk0odd598q0rq7blqt/22059810828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/51785552506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210916054843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912142141195008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/75604558524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+trusted+credentials+on+androidPDF 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_off0000fd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD08 10560 bytes
SHA-256: f246476801d14a9c53146a348494d442e303665d166ab4a35b042e4ae0f3dd21
font_01_sfnt_off0001151b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1151B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2D 18448 bytes
SHA-256: e4b8f5f870b2c16154e136867670205f3880c97ff4ee08b55f04569f8bb137b2