Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75fa01e4f7f2534…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ac941411ad469eca817bccac889d7525 SHA-1: 915c326262de5c3e8e98a27218089775292e8ef3 SHA-256: c75fa01e4f7f253458cf2d067b42635022ee3275c1f54e6bb49544f9b9979689
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or a callback scam, as suggested by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d7100a85210fc1d7bf2d58bc178663/zurimufezurinopuvudugoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41c2276039303bd1ac3f95bda9b0881/nasiwoxitijefuxizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakezilidamimovemofewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/piwimixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e67755cd24---47500481144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/kiwikosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f7e58dbe1---28280146786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/farotufulekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/xerapedirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9dd93af06---72112540552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e49acc4bd69---nafudogexatiruxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/gewalurewilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fe0175a5f1---gixinokanovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/17242249907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c02deaeec8f3a54242b627872649e2b/48281278293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe1453c289---burobajabalowijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83e65e3b2e2469b98929a8b5f69eaf9d/48519927541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/vonelogofiteto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/77301118221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/perinenomotexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/76133266104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/16538269939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/56959424175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/728d14e8468592c100abf38326117525/goliwotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=2019+gmc+acadia+slt+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18B 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 14c6da1ccacb3586d54e8f3b45d7bcab2310f9b8098b4af6c9b48e0de84e3459
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEC 16964 bytes
SHA-256: fbedf489a87ff499c132d0dea743a7d6aafea411d719f9b729f4b556f3fc2ed3
font_02_sfnt_off000117d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1