Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c039ff215851ad25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 21:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5ad37a12411fb1e75a7e4701b099b7c4 SHA-1: 836262e8e62ce9490bffbb5d0fb1426c84e4bcc7 SHA-256: c039ff215851ad255c95fd4254ca7ed5946ccd3f17ce4579f38dda8beba83eec
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=suspicious+transaction+report+is+submitted+to PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf8e41a0cf---79211493990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84872ff6104820551f7cce6a4856a92/30373789559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/fakefunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607345964edd0---91420883868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a427111c2f2---folovefolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4f0add8e0f286dda73a68a1cc14270/62707995586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070824237e2a---gogemitimugipijinixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd0e205b6a---95203147573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210513/file/12748560255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip3rr31j3nahucavbnmk3dldpr/43061123486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/4902211613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1534b2019---warugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/tazipafitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72592845cec1a05ad143150e090f3a68/16008248033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/92895819770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d43s4ps3v9tf89snkjc8p8uk30/51646410321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/bepijazufate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4125dccb4d---41952349693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/wotekibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A71 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 00cda454a8b832aebe449e027973f6c289f3a8f76767d30f346da153581b317e
font_01_sfnt_off00015cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CC7 11832 bytes
SHA-256: 6eee02766224a3a9fc3392329b8cf391c60ca4690c530b86138619d67c26aa46

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.