Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd339633a285a20f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 07:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5b53e393e4a47b40bbe87a937ed615cf SHA-1: 231013b66f7ef1143e0e29dbabee85a52ebc1604 SHA-256: bd339633a285a20fb1143b980e90d2169ed1784ebd695ad624abad723302ce12
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress upload sites and disposable hosting domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains elements suggestive of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, aiming to trick users into calling a phone number. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/kapinireniginosebadibugop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d758227dd6eed2fcce9f8dcefbb4e1/dotevomawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800cd95d8ea3213dbbd4b4ecd7f45675/94327299822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd0bd6a4e8ad21f1b552c39f59c087c/13956201851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25703cd500315517f1bf503702dbc711/96439508721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47a2de3662---82189668584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/gudixivinuvazijejudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/91817274223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9bee47cc7ccef4a7a48a5827ce55e6/66706798281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c833191437---xuzukenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4db0bd74e---josejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/18020959871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/nezoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/21795839989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roanfamily.net/clients/0/01/01b24a6c100194bbc8678883f3cd4a53/File/64271304269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e6a4cfd3466bf7abfd3ed6ce7701fcc/wukegomeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eirai.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisiwatizoxipukufevabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5b15df31498ff00942a6fbfaba9798/vufejatafikumefevulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/degarapimimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecb1649a10---90525350671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/74238532618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rap6482lkqle141uu4l22jkfjm/45000788563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b0657207b---kesadori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=polaroid+onestep+plus+batteryPDF 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_off0000e812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE812 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 320127fb395e2a1d16dd155b7aa0566d090423c4a76b22694fbf118229f51118
font_01_sfnt_off0001167e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E95 10740 bytes
SHA-256: a4e6abcba1775c7964d33c12a8ca83b429a601966f932dd81b5b8c6d5eea2612