Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 013e1e7baf612774…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 821e3ca03712dff06684dee80ae4e706 SHA-1: 789251da6b3c6a77940fff39169a6e72b1745a37 SHA-256: 013e1e7baf6127748d49f668570bb351fd683c10803bfa8d04bd93255947299d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV, as malicious. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://webs123.com/userfiles/file/gofesedomonifab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/goxawurizemifototubosefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr2f1tksg0744hpfvqb4c17de4/domogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/gevisejesanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/54391108614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/41491504161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b610981da25---21600584129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.net/images/file/dozaxutisiborozixoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c909ee85fae---75463914335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/22983658317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/jovawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20609873384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51298517961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunimedipemaxusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/xazenabosirakesurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/nibevadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/bozujusixolodojinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e61a35379c5---95512045274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/renuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://max-metal.pl/gfx/file/73495864851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6f2bb3b94a868f41fcbc87903367075/vatopaligodatejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/29785330690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f09eef92380---59964748683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=rendering+with+pen+and+ink+pdf+freePDF link annotation
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210722/16268892764746.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_off0000e1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FB 10668 bytes
SHA-256: a0212879de61b95a1b5d692a39e3efc94954cfa109eb398514d5fd60a43fee5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA31 19268 bytes
SHA-256: beeea3c1c3cc2b14818d3d2e302d0df50b2c22c6253235d51ff1c6f801df3853
font_02_sfnt_off00012cef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1