Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff38f555ba64fc49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 20:22:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1101bffe3d6a69b652e04d9ea11f64e4 SHA-1: a0e0f31a7ba548640d91d78d8ada67254eb6c7ab SHA-256: ff38f555ba64fc49a9ce78437b3e6ede37e9deb40e9d0b8cc23336a329c184d7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests it's designed to trick users into calling a number, likely for a scam. The presence of embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories further supports a malicious intent to host or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3196854c11---64243526170.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/dunudenagodinenomitefuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368aa2f30832ab4b7df1f0eec7924bf3/70520085088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///45760809467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec121b87a4---75884836838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pqr0v2tc0nfv9irdjto8qccm1/josozawepilutojujutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/85312436243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4518800b530b7ff4e1838ff993752d/ripipibagubijexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/87998196615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98d3c9ee63---bupawuwimiwekilemuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawezowudumagujetexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmickino.ru/sadm_files/80052244856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/rumitusekewepini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vedu97jd7m2acgs2is620v16p7/47858397647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9f481797cded2019870d79ee51e70e/mawugipikezexoxopubinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e3e6a2be3---41537084002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/96230564932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles//file/43875690047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/lelapezedero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/557474502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasexulikibajujuzosefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f65137361af5d80c16553c09138d6727/duwosisefewana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07236ad5471bb51483304273e50a5435/64110801742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9be2ea8156---31480515555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vuworagimuvivezepoxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+bkash+numberPDF 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_off0000f53e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53E 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 1b5885409e3407f093e5da82457b36cbbccebed14fdf1c482a05aef3fe653082
font_01_sfnt_off000125a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A0 10532 bytes
SHA-256: ae9f08f353f884b802222f222a0548c1baad08159d2df9eb1655fc54a09a743f
font_02_sfnt_off00013d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1