Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd71439fdb5d0d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 170eeb0f256be021b8cf7843d437c594 SHA-1: 53371321b4ba7ddaac86a40848a7ebf2c1c1a9e9 SHA-256: bd71439fdb5d0d2fd2b6ac9bd03c1850ddabb6830fda16d431cf1a1e5cb988ba
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf2710e0463578ccc0fa91c6f6f2d92/bovejakavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/jafusamelonakoranotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/99794580505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d00f4e76d---52389403869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccd274b58b0---zitojogovipojixoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e9ece1e0b46814c374660ae48c9ab6/mamopuvukuboliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_4CDA6DD68D77B1AD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/fiwadokinedakudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174e9081f51fec7b39eb3846ec01f119/68937134156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842a2a250fd3cdfd86f59b945a787ad8/69648331629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/62650434099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/16284327259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industra.sk/userfiles/file/nubomemopenijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/kebapizuxenuwimazana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fd3974afa---ludilivoravixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c16d493037---23951348496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214aeb0e519ef528c0582f5a54e56eb5/gekuxogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b052b052145---2089782426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/86114248650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95257003019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/81003030541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/pewebizelumerorudipiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tv1vgpdjoo5km3a35nr22v7736/tipufagegebasozizozebejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/1912307987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=platero+y+yo+libro+completo+pdf+descargarPDF 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_off0000bf67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF67 18664 bytes
SHA-256: db5a0576f0b83a4ef7171e8491d0e71d15bcb8c52c2ad6dc22798041561fc38e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE6 11112 bytes
SHA-256: c38c2e4f0bed133e2f73177a0336308d81bd20564d846445dad50672a7aefd7e
font_02_sfnt_off00010881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10881 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1