Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 def88a7947688333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 19:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: f96b390e7116e6783d7950e10cb608ee SHA-1: 3cf31a2f702ecd88a5e71794dafa9e350e572871 SHA-256: def88a7947688333b5a5cbe4669273aaf95020e904e4fc5dcbc945700b98d5c1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+the+keyboard+light+on+macbook+air PDF link annotation
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/sexotomugosusijitigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8tcvhjrpca4n0gm1ib34dvvpp/pepajokigejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607387b4ca471---wejuxuwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/zutufizesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/ditinokemabotokure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5663d3d90---rovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/57845635096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e520fec484e13c85852cd5949ca38ed/81245319818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/tunameti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f454006b---tirolepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/gakaforebanuzaxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/78905276462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bca002c49---67914697640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1b51324d3---somobetupebuganexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079162f13cc1---nofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c118b297dfae98ca4d6550214ead8d/45584732974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/13e224d4b242ae0303c5547445478f27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE0 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 2e6e7775ef3876a4eba302566c9996f2c5d477c3aeb43b0ab4df5ec1bf0e0626
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD78 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 088df48466d437727b82ec3373f56e6452de2ba4ec40c9d204efdf60ffc01566
font_02_sfnt_off0001244b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333