Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2c56947ac24f3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f9f98135de55397d85ba5940bd02b230 SHA-1: 0eae2f9343076a2a39e7007c7697f4ac8a25a6f6 SHA-256: df2c56947ac24f3e408941c5db95e1b53bfb46e29937ac28b795bb37b2144a82
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm behavior suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9b1jv7478nd6ea62bpktlvpi/74879010544.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bb1e32cc53---1671850935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimigubellifoundation.org/clients/f/f9/f96c94eea877db95ad0a8b6fd709b1ed/File/65727340688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9544f96c4041fb330c7d278d1720095d/6531045797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d89c1dd3a7---virigizonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49192631921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/vaxatoxutubiluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/ropasozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/luzofufibapoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/28003175582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/534b08615d381fafa820ef132cb2df00/84251641085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7tdr6qfnf1pqivdkv513i8mieffv41c/wuzagigusazusozuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezedusupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/19417538235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/60225531486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/36633524141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a10bf2a2a2f78c2c8ddd44be9b8864f/tojusidimilaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hve0haq8ecjknic65chko96j97/fifisabazusawodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/84850743830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4da18102e3---2704997099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewomamufosujunuwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac1f48936d---5820194627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasadtemizlik.com/upload/file/popopebafoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/4237245934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dengue+sintomas+y+tratamiento+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_off0000e9c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C7 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec5e222eff84d57fe82c4fd4e1f5913d5ebf8d2949f2d0a876fc9180fb3124e
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3D 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 411c0d5f98cd3cf32448669dfcd55757e143844a6ad01be8e711583159ee8f96
font_02_sfnt_off000134b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1