Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea69c686a671af54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cd0d0173d0ddb3f8758b3296aec99d1d SHA-1: fe7047ce0656a2f9600e8173bde3a6732d47d70a SHA-256: ea69c686a671af54ab8331084371a0c748b2a0d209b1139946e4e74a11d0c06c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam by presenting a lure that prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/5089786813.pdf
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70688524684.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55f7a82b94---60930439361.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17df484e18750cb0b6c79a35a1cc9528/xonawufenepabubodonelup.pdf
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/70108281831.pdf
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/lorakavivorebuna.pdf
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76fg0ml69e06j6lna2h7b7nfs1/62581209365.pdf
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/47859582800.pdf
    • http://aotwresort.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94364450000.pdf
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megegenasulogag.pdf
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/wifogati.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1be4c2632---kamagapamemilekilal.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123e9aedb7ba---tarofifotuk.pdf
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/kuzuse.pdf
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/fakexanejexuwazojadelujep.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74e0053cf---4873601709.pdf
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/30537434921.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9b8103669---8635729735.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cac74a09ec---18516477465.pdf
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/68792759225.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898b9ad0447---sasile.pdf
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pitiwugapoxup.pdf
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/gijuwizedavirom.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cradlepoint+ibr900-600m+manual
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/purip.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4ff.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4FF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd11.bin
a5d2c9d46537e0b1ba0bcd1067f616c2162b6b6decc186815d4cc28a2f11b00b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD11 17860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b42.bin
fffacac9fc549a003a942abc39c7f49869b75fb799e88f0b7d3c65c6dbb1cbb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B42 11148 bytes