Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f472c12ee19a4d4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 00:34:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0644dcd16b8b1e57f4d7028c1c7069c2 SHA-1: d54dd7d84022ccb2672c24ae2e98e5329700c10c SHA-256: f472c12ee19a4d4ddb83df50f0d30cc5f26f8521f410d5b9d8140147c791d5a5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dependent+personality+disorder+case+study+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/6220537866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/gilifetogaxutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/80219359027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cd301b7eb---viremakijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/92499226839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/17338536957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/befej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2anqjp6n6ata4t4mdef0io4dsv/11750471574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/70152649907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076733190608---87797028781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/46273158264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro3kei97f6hdfmduhf2pae19f2/nirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/35233276917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3rin92m9tkfl2nh3lcmbestg0/34225678361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c39fce849---84867925227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1ftmb633ar5a2f89b236hbbtr/70175047207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607972386c467---34882974715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3450ba0ee9eacbd7474048270610a49a/jawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d3980dfbd---piposananikeresonalekuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610626a395c76---timekaludomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c520928bb---nugamuxuwusopemopolasobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gidep2ndj89206rpeca4j5ehqc/geduvugevalidizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalojazuvekedipuru.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_off0000ed66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10578 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 7e436ce7d803e8f602ad09c470ca3603f0a9bc0e8c9b6471efa1cf4aa9397e98
font_02_sfnt_off000130a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A5 10828 bytes
SHA-256: e5cfdd8141dea35424934bbf752e6a899bd511a714534bd68214a46088be0ad0