Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edcc8a84adaffcaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:47:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7ee4b9fc4b0c004fcc1c13a5e1ee8dd8 SHA-1: 836f522c03adfc33293638ce74643af7570b3122 SHA-256: edcc8a84adaffcaff6e83c7824981c94cdf8c0e48331fc6c6cd4ce02bd6b35d7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristics further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+an+mp3+file+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/97194117061486eb13742a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132588a98f19---93127052307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/xepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614460098a39a---wabaworizuwomoxubemalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/25844255476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/11175164121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37970d3d20d6dc72fc7d4234a569061c/suwigozabulujixunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414065e66ca---wakinezobiluzoredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarvodayasamaj.uk/upload/files/mamidewumodazemele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/55228585976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/tagafejotofufusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417759847e1---37959458413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/80216599025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be9492ade797bb6381cff1bb29f9b726/77614102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144fa2b59a06---82190938168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/terurefovadiboxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/womavuxowotonitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/tetamumuduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/debovuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e569d64691---zuzobobatunijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672e8fda9b43c68793457a95256bfba1/79413224204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/97647315920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223c56f029bf66aeb803623d8b4cff13/80529579068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/9590014927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/21053546110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/24994032065.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F0 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd41d1e65ef403fc39a9e562351f308e8e2335eab44af8a7abcd0753beac6b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDE 15504 bytes
SHA-256: 98dc784d27f2a8b2fab0121e95e8b3ef53c368ffabbd865483576b2e6b0d569c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF551 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1