Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c84c8f5035a3c1c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff7409bf94ad2ae951a1c84aa3337b0c SHA-1: 3d6113a0c15e93a3c25f7c68fa9a79c7a8bea456 SHA-256: c84c8f5035a3c1c59d3a5951464175ce8a7b00df03f926211b39a86356270de3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and contains a callback lure, prompting users to call a phone number for a fabricated issue. This suggests an attempt to engage victims in a social engineering scheme, likely to extract sensitive information or money.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/39492235985.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5fcc30437---sebaru.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a907a98d6---demesabezixagazaporobife.pdf
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/jujodefemoriji.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2710e8ccd19aed4f24ee77ea51e9c9/juvekigeradarixofelimi.pdf
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/80054431586.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c66664f087---jironipesotedosimibak.pdf
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/zopubav.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485a88b6528daa0d11d44a2be1195b25/7291555609.pdf
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/79478702797.pdf
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/22491582118.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d625bfb8538---jutepabokuxafulupof.pdf
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8psf0858h03mhiegc7qcsialf/76574782037.pdf
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/vibere.pdf
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc2vg87eac758ednujr1qhtc88/34175524306.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d22ed6c6a---22323770895.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a889c99684c---zivujemoxibezolemokazi.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7750112a6f9a8e2f57d2fa1151ce33b3/bexapoxikifasiva.pdf
    • http://arslanemlak.com/E/file/14182342667.pdf
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/16/file/20210516_172131_145.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7b9a8e50571f35e8fbe50403130c72/51264151982.pdf
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54886340364.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1239bee2c8---5526060544.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed28c540f8a3f0273d7ef0563b4fc05/fetegirunaw.pdf
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/57853929515.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+phone+hacking+book
    • 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_off0000ecd2.bin
66865332993b6a217b51b5734588aa2e28439f32a7c6b2163119f59ec427cca6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD2 17484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a75.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A75 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001328c.bin
bcd333ac8da50f66f5d971db9dd60aeca0436fc8e177605b8ba13589d5de68a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328C 10512 bytes