Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff42d9cbfb27dd30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3469e7f2706ebd18b9d0866d31ad7a5e SHA-1: e58bdeb3736815c945c8e3d10853bf9468e05224 SHA-256: ff42d9cbfb27dd305f76fefceb66c659e46b4a4a757e6fa81952cbc9758eece1
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. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also be part of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, prompting users to call a number for a fake issue.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lateral+wall+ischemia+treatment PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49f42080d9---93946803406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210513003507247370634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dff89b6ba149786c3d7d5ea159dd8a1/betakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e5ea12475---jaxorotirumigibemuxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep98hqge9sqcpmp3rijnqg28g1/sovalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/wuguvutidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210518232315_a4s8z5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a024f1d7f177fda39b602b49fd7a0b3/mevibozorumatuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084110bbbb9d---lilegotilijaxoguvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iviltra.lt/images/files/xadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cabc09d13c68d3c3367e76edd0a1aa9/97375425343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0f2326becb40ea459ad3bff2049b22/57939110716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/60339022635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/vifovidorugemijepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/54236378168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/11394957740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6a3138f4c9---biwubuxodebutobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ebc5904c3---dokufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba63cf0ec37---xokif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39085600925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd0a16f8e2---8501511176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/tutukopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d218692fee---56625566114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/larenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195dcc6880c52d49b8198b28c17bdb00/lobaneb.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_off0001646a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1646A 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 3c0eb03dd2cf7bffb1690cd49d109c4b7e660c25c3664b559894dfdb3ace4d1f
font_01_sfnt_off00017bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000193f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x193F1 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 28a24b58a3667fceec4fb66cc44a5bf504480bebe681c7f5d55fed2471169e43