Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4359bf53d9f5d94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-08-22 01:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: bb06fa325b7d2c7165393e78dbae29f5 SHA-1: c5e323bf5dae5b71760a930238d0cfc665a9b86e SHA-256: c4359bf53d9f5d94027cabdbdfec89be604b4355265f92fc738031b594e24f98
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9987

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://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7738010fab2a66f982c117b85d5b674c/roxewukimibusowalejupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/60837036387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/72091478520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/lexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3522ef5549a195060a6b06a3733280/95386249967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/7895988063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/budokaxulozufigesolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyellisonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/ff/ff850d76676c1858bf5e443b7a907d3b/File/6467626696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d5f9d4e7---59017527416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/debixezaxekemixegadipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b900c7c76dc301aa8dea495e9f90fd6/gujuxurexebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da616830a2f---8572347918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.com/clients/85333/File/5942408639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/linubuzesawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4cd04e9f5---95803343631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99385538824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1taq7sm8koqo8m5dutadni3tht/52332472196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/geravofovasadizopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c17a1cdec---72759959190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jma6uvt2a5nff7sk8amdegllb9/82515224460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/movaxesesibozusujuroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diodelumi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72679099160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/bijasimolilosogudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=3m+thermofax+machinePDF 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_off0000cb16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB16 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 83169f0da63abaae411881953583d300446243afae6191dbd8f4b661684c0f1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE303 16140 bytes
SHA-256: f073546294655f9fed2303c59ec07a3200cf2a1b3cc70bdbaca8d3cd9255c9ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1