Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c06c25eee2e9a73f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0166f325397e82015e3787ab8fe2ec40 SHA-1: 9920835cd663085edddf700724f2bd5e0c1eefd4 SHA-256: c06c25eee2e9a73fa0277f32e614bd87390480a517c48e14b05365e8429e61c8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may be designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent number, consistent with phishing or tech-support scams.

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://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/mododuduz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e966d7b5---6298640874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/64303005575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/46646553529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/2108232118359687522vgbi6hi83n9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21717a034b1517824889b7d86101d5e8/sabezominobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89528128465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0f5662ded---sovofubiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/24172532410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0e1da86377ad4314c61a58dfaea70a/18531169528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/nilezuduzasivakowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/rurogixuvawokovibisasebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790ba10bb88---53399381815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38703015575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaynhanh365.net/contents/files/42504452920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4ab08653b---18693928357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be10f30486---46035808035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c572a06f---21886471345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202108171257238250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/45924165264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/narofexevaresakepufires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e221bff53---lupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/82003442561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121c0cfad29d---pekovobikifoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/borokikesuvuxuwepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=against+the+grain+book+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_off0000ca75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA75 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 2704bfd1a9c0f2f3f602a780e6ea6a0b5920e8f6af09c3a2ae05e25729b8d5be
font_01_sfnt_off0000f612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF612 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E29 10944 bytes
SHA-256: edefea9bb966803bd9676a835fb7b365e5a7e6a8cf52c88b783744445ffa077f