Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c398a51f723e8b55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:17:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8651628754f085878e6329a4b756d9da SHA-1: 7d829cdd1d075dbb11410095b63c1f9d34d8d77b SHA-256: c398a51f723e8b55ff4a4fd73d7528373edb52d0c6e12c7b9659b3477fa495b4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The document's structure and heuristic firings indicate an attempt to trick users into interacting with malicious links or content, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a414b4c8e2---23756647763.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/nozawitewijitatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/lukafubojarifozolivojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9n2bn9mz3aba29g44r4o0a.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/image/riritutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eec6d990c8---30069015225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/13637773960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210902231154402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/kekezisanexebodifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58250429751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d0575817c---vuritavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090912334161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/rakadamufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78b92aef570ba6cda3b5432c45abc1a/3004976748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/gojokifabixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gomodatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostfoundglobal.com/userfiles/file/49272892708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328b7bea35b---mibizadumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355e5e7a3d8---wepotubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/1181905824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/zojakojalinidasele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81756943760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/55611532977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/86388169187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/76581189735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/43539268155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hazrdner-r4a10d.com/alisveris/yollanan_resimler/file/12499697713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=act+probability+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC704 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF16 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 9127014674ec1e05689c64669582ca495021a4d9433ca7fcd6b8a1532d7e1aa7
font_02_sfnt_off00010e68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E68 10780 bytes
SHA-256: d431531155a894d93ef2ec683b4e8fc0d4be641fb37f9c954b94b252643dc7f5