Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ffd4267886727e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3ccc522466ab8c15f92b0f26455c05cf SHA-1: 8ad96d9b8f4a5a927d7a1a30cc7890e707ad2d67 SHA-256: e0ffd4267886727eea931737aa476477ab991dadd4fedb376891f7ffffb84f86
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam by luring users to call a phone number. The document contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a pattern of hosting malicious content on compromised infrastructure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f69f44b6190---famukuzom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/wabojenawowikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae470fbaa07---budigamijitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/17518164545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/60539886770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21763065585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/lupanetokerevizezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/88446401808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb88875295dc7e50d72320f959eaf7da/bosumufudilebute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23aa75a02d5bc9b48a4e4648c6088607/46654886583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076942364649---22757638773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/58630016851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97091511417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/3522945150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/libarusefizojefigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wappa.com.au/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufopevusubevodoxaxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/46680410043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwefixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903022937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b99ff9e333---8770437968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908e54162518fb1a35335c0b45227dac/vitonifeganususifixeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/39190862756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/86675783120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0dc9c5e4b---fupadoberelerunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7864392c2a29a27cfecd507abdb98e64/10015708112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=literary+theory+and+schools+of+criticism+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_off0000e367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE367 18568 bytes
SHA-256: ce5ef89154dcd3b59bfd8a574c3f98a8a5ec43d7a79f641817dab088b6ce14a2
font_01_sfnt_off00011333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11333 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4A 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 948d9ef9136575cf3cd0a6ed6ac331004eb246ec587d88f8d2b8fb517dc8c874