Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd90dc683c8b5c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 82c60b7f4324296dee63e8f3ca1fa512 SHA-1: 9d02f58bf29f249b0121f417da8ff24740519893 SHA-256: cd90dc683c8b5c9e2161e73e79acab3609b5e2559e701ff10ab795910608a941
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, ultimately leading to a PDF payload. The presence of a callback lure suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/mefonaguvatazara.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a13056aca---61927106873.pdf
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/34093508314.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a811d537194d6a8f75cb13b89d4596/84099542031.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/lixij.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01rd714j0ov4sbvbh6ibi6mroe/risemuxisozusuvafef.pdf
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202153234193107.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076890679962---85022163709.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a9d7a29a9---sapisefoduz.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26d943748c0ed3499eb78b10099ea739/42574269151.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/diwutawimufuta.pdf
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54f71249a5---99708812859.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b755b8186fb---51154385895.pdf
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/zewuzemerilivafi.pdf
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/69931857217.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282e6bbe999ea1f98e0856d801f63558/nanolufujidej.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ac38398a45f9a4b4928858445e90ae/veboxu.pdf
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/nowafopoteniwinuvif.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd02463caa---83979104705.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609967f8b2a87---xapoluwo.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d96c91370a6---29706257148.pdf
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/wosewujajoxasobosefag.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab77be21d---saguguk.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=farris+and+thomas+law
    • 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_off0000e49f.bin
5b407469389df4660b401e4416899cb01d34d7b7a20f66def3bac343c317565f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49F 10444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc14.bin
fdc98237f7fde7e8e06073b4164e763f3f27b6cea90bcd8673d3c34c5fbde917
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC14 17328 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012873.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12873 16792 bytes