Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c02d06fc81d9b621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a92c70fee077db5a08eeebcdca86a786 SHA-1: 95ac7817bac2b8e873a009f225cbb836efbd1d19 SHA-256: c02d06fc81d9b62155f90c3b883889c5fdb32b67ab462f118ea89b4244027753
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for a fraudulent purpose. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and associated URLs suggest a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://palami.by/images/file/zifimosamigosenegetaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876f52d3ce7---42085462100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b229e980117---ninuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a292a8bcbc1---zefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c993cf55795---pinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/90292636542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/92857643080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13538d34cd68a6c51408498b0e10a1e0/5772272046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/294174da61f58d636a5b7b9eb70ae0f8/2972618792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/39186494646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/xomuzudeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b847c3c64---bifafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54d6e68caa73e705d5d91be93c91162/85216341533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/32407369578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7f5fd399a---tizapuzajugofizinatajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/sutenixapopuwojuvisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/xitirojewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/94600898779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/fevikojuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050208210225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/64284462064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/jepusumatepinofuxubigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/6816468153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/13120424474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=complete+idiot%27s+guide+statistics+2nd+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA33 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9d4c0674c13e544d3ba2eeb4540f365a890c5fcb67b76b08cb34c2c77e127f
font_01_sfnt_off00010425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10425 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 22f7d7ae44c1dce1abcbca186981bf57df2649aac6a01919eee9d90409d0f16f
font_02_sfnt_off000131ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1