Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a91a5aa7b3212b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:45:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5319f7ba0ffe32a9ca450608a2349680 SHA-1: d996353c73552fcd0fd2ef74f600cdf93e79634f SHA-256: 04a91a5aa7b3212bf07af2ea3564c40a622cdbf648309949c9ee968e5d70ab28
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in callback phishing and tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sms+blast+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://terremeraude.com/userfiles/file/rijerovewugetirano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilezogakewosidimurafive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109120703083706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381db85fd69---salabufixobivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanking.net/userData/board/file/51336187696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/piubtu4t4poet7e62ktfunssfn/xadunowirimaresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62853085781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointerboards.com/uploads/admin/files/84890272188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/zagesejusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/42998512475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/tozixatogirilefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db1e79ed9f---siresawese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalight.lv/uploads/files/57816085801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/99911734403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/lesozafogivuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trubaopt.ru/content/file/wipuxomazunovupomeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/63469948990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/dudinoravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/fukosipexigozirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/49738137232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnotrctqhle145mu4auj97hoa3/15192234026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/nuponamilatibedovizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/52191540393.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_off0000cb04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB04 10620 bytes
SHA-256: d3722918c17d69f2bb615fa8dc979590a12b7f885912cead1885cd2200e2f984
font_01_sfnt_off0000e321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE321 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 17308 bytes
SHA-256: a16f3528bc18f150eff59a2356fd3942e38d1410cd60e94884c41a59ae83b404