Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c828add170b40fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 38c1f3228abc4292e247ebf8febbf62c SHA-1: 911cf7c4a456315dec856a96ed43a4df6e00a0e1 SHA-256: c828add170b40fa099204ea14bfa20a503fcff149a9ed89179f7a61a32bbbaae
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2635234861.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/19374744779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/41281903586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/86662178640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/rinavisuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7cb1a245d89dec73152b17b504a01a/46010902947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamakuralosgatos.com/uploads/files/49240893971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e480204e12d---99682836066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b8197ebbfa601727b0147dcf5b8549/17179333478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/48411405449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/63187774155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210702_175205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/fenegomunegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/38888594198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27htra4eqdm7oj42ctinj1mi7l/13895254499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k885bebap42m88om0j0loi5ve0/64354500669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/10422696153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/xubifajobegarevekuxojimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eksiliotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/74835549276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wowapinapake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ac450517a3de25bf173b6ce7c728ca/96972015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkhmab5u4omvg7qv1qlj5doaqm/xifowesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=sampling+design+notes+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_off0000d816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD816 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 6c81b083520f0388bc9c17bbfe5ae39b5c48a4b84d64c7fc55f423156bd3eae4
font_01_sfnt_off00010647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10647 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 3c93bd946d9ac9f3cba31c9cad251fdfdcbf40e80a33faeec902d6c1c2989c94
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1