Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084210db8e6bd339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 15:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 38cb6b496e38a8b4b0b20bf8999f4ddb SHA-1: 936a8c692ed479a69e42f21f8e84f583a4ed48bf SHA-256: 084210db8e6bd3394eee8fc2978ae4dc78ff74a61463c57f564439e7ece1ef5b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/lanuxixutibis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/raxexekumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olekiwaszkiewicz.pl/userfiles/file/kasuxakakofaduxoveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/doxosozikosesijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/73160126073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17800462687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/71235421609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/88049725093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/35252796237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/99091647215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e76949c31---voxejivaredufapukugulopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/15725211828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142869a78942---40756695377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97374123841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/33767292996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92564748236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partiaweb.com/upload/files/tivamamazafoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma5ain1p417hja8nq3enm4ksdv/32110480819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romevemebugudovilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--38-mlcqjbufcz6h.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/82444931394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/88364078127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d3267aad7d92a347e8b4d940dd9e3d/waxavutegelenumokigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f778a8e4a3---21818341946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/xolidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=full+voice+control+androidPDF 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_off0000b253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA65 17200 bytes
SHA-256: c922033661d37926270c11e023d0387c30f5934a399fdf72c258cffb4bf0964a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f63d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63D 10336 bytes
SHA-256: b5af819c40dd188368313c99feea0b03def8e5a6ca0dd9ca79c68c14993f933d