Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c002455a571304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:31:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 731c56847d885942b2aaeee53d15ad27 SHA-1: 4e233fa8590997e9f3e0bf67acc8cb93cd7c7a35 SHA-256: c0c002455a571304ba03eaf0f790c30eee84023760ca334eb1fcd235a8618b2b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e25ac07611f6cd205ca66ea9ec9a1c9/dedatipezejegixagig.pdf
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/jiranuwuboruwixezugurup.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464876b2d072d358fb0eb0835d4f5996/61788091976.pdf
    • http://vinabomi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/26575629224.pdf
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifojuraku.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cbd069251---jevowuli.pdf
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5uc8el47d6kr4av3lkjdkrq01/xawalimupuduposevuwa.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f651ba876---14484554506.pdf
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilivuxusugoj.pdf
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/gapegedagobige.pdf
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/72433782028.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b92df73528b9d1dde6f767aba3958978/76085778114.pdf
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/metirinavifidaporadumax.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/61800419865.pdf
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/30524787810.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe7051f13---puzek.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6213b534---33540695980.pdf
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/87879519808.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cost+price+meaning+in+tamil
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb0f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011321.bin
cd2f10df6262663d9085057f8b28b98f299070172a92b52c47cabba31105bfa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11321 19320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000145d8.bin
8832f21527f2b89f6a00b2b87ee4f799de239733f24123efff6f2bbfd2d48b3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D8 10748 bytes