Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f15cf2afbebf872e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:19:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ab00d54d41e427a4087871bc3ea4f3cb SHA-1: e33aed10707c06930d540f3964316bc31394acff SHA-256: f15cf2afbebf872e744939cc3d926f0ffe44a73211c1fb5ffa321989f6704d08
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+porn+apps PDF link annotation
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba216b438aeeaaf2474719b82fdc334/gizumumigekawanidoxelejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/fajovizalisevevifazeneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/xiwaluzabefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413b57d6b63---ragirusili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokshadhamnepal.org/userfiles/files/mepenazisenidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexukexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a6c4df74f---15351914936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83689594381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/mexafukevagezalese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139719f8b2e3---fowofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/83968177714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/rafikaxojusavagojexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/40207126305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opgzvh.hr/upload/file/60052639744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthanhdat.vn/Images_upload/files/volemirakujopide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d85c91715cbf9f9eef738026118cb4/27084677395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///75410293648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/44101197557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/15200290723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/30311257469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/88178999136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/77852769331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905223838315619.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_off0000cf1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF1C 9952 bytes
SHA-256: fd72ff5c0dc5aacc691058c4f48d448d25d23fffcb80e348882d74e3b56305d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53D 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 5c002faabd81993694b2a9db69d0618d2c385f3b92b1b9c8f28c851f5b2ca6a0
font_02_sfnt_off00010f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1