Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d94a37a1b2ad8af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a1f9fc77243d2287ca7737e067b5edc SHA-1: bb8b7f533634134c39a34b19e536869da574a32a SHA-256: d94a37a1b2ad8af6942ef192e6359dfc8bb79278395e7d79e4b377a85cad13df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with the document. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns that often leverage embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c542c55a6---92553001438.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/37234742838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/dawisunaxususurusujifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents//files/65244117887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsugiadinhviet.com/upload/ck/files/fupoxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944c75668c8---tivewakubuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974f8a045aa---4479856844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/7718668825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldoutback.com/clients/f/f6/f61299a274fa8fdb0c00f5b1ed511d42/File/54818054561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45436ccd73e0781fede51dbfb1048684/28517325900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq7vobnqsifnrvc3rflnor0lfo/boguvesabijaputawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cec763a6f7---mifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59582009075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/35784960728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/96956654161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/4886116987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellsazshihtzu.com/clients/878694/File/kokijokaridesonekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89b807e895---19670425330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/dutipafopofopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6f75c89fe3b90e45681373c8fb30ef/35225051256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/bedobuletetabilunijoxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/sozemusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58650463123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=nihon+kohden+ecg-1350+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_off0000d8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CE 11132 bytes
SHA-256: c8834bea60da18228839399518698cb86ddf074244631d4e53e25771c7b8b948
font_01_sfnt_off0000f273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF273 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A85 18504 bytes
SHA-256: d9cb34a787e4b5b711da19387c4bed9641a367f4a689e666955f7f460eec0578