Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0be78ba660abfa9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:22:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 0b5debe796adea8994b84bfeb6dd34c9 SHA-1: 7a63e333d338a82038676723ae514dc766da503f SHA-256: 0be78ba660abfa9ff835c5c4bdd30e6e13cf02854b16548f31f98d08cab0c5ec
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristics also indicate the presence of QR code and callback phishing lures, common in social engineering attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/95331227605.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/57528221136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d8d9dc6d3---52029984833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25878254964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/webimabizalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabugutemasidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/16860093125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/75265747493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proartgaleria.hu/files/files/58676424521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37502137335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fd50075e6---5075853990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/dunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/60184594319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051soddubm97gh4fejlceku5m7/wamidapizirizogupanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorus.rs/files/76732018959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6f6a34076---44706673757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/93680503433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/givujitezegofiwekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/pifirofilebezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/donowamatobabikupove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/56863978875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/73564949733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33065125799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/93929141634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/galurikibefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=add+qr+code+scanner+to+android+appPDF 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_off0000cad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD3 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 2c94b6fbd31e45194acb26defb83fa0b54e32915c10c3110ce3fe65b2d4e51be
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CF 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 13cbdc0cd3db4437deca22ba897126bc7f5dd526c8f74987c72fe7e87cd5e8dd
font_02_sfnt_off000111ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1