Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e82f8dae1a2986ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2989a759fee615f9dc42e4e50e39373e SHA-1: 052398424f39d8b3274d6c1bb2b244fc74adad0e SHA-256: e82f8dae1a2986ae79760fcb2302818dbd98b816596efaa7f3239a186ffed793
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a tech-support scam or callback phishing attempt, where the document likely prompts the user to call a number. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

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 http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138304bb05ea---57308811080.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamepuvugijuvalibimibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegmsbihta.in/userfiles/file/kuvigipexetaxepukejopolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ec4c5ccd0---67955373505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/59228677106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/bofojerufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/vobiribudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/66475098435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/49208866968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614109e22eed4---71222512360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosodopokekifiwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kijefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99388084051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/12151016037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///38515496816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/nanirovekuzugetebilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/97888613395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fesozebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/zawofofuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedavitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/46311175178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/tivovinevuxesolasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20257705189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/sezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bigpond+com+au+emailPDF 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_off0000e22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22D 10644 bytes
SHA-256: e9365f2c72008bd0cb6eeb685020d2268ae5d396aedf36271fcdf0f06185b2d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11256 19236 bytes
SHA-256: f433f67e48b9c3b2fd5c0014a5a7d43141d05cc967a107b8c8b089d447145de8