Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e2333779a8f278d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 815a40404aa4ec0601e6876255ce332d SHA-1: 0cfa166914e782744d21200ffd75ff722c67bc3e SHA-256: 0e2333779a8f278d461c7db005003675a854619b8fb6cc942f5a1ca1f0d46e67
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it is part of a phishing or scam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing lure designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b094011c6eddd3e2084eca05e8e5b9/70074626476.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/dozekirawamixituwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116a9558c5e7---jujinuxopijojalofoveluxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c8f94fa4f---41225787916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epas192bi1q645ql3sgqbjjqk7/megasujiwijisuxiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/16911697409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/47793006603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/51753205689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/83085208707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/75154902134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ceee936a1---18251124624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/durezuxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797f5873e45---91690063013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/33825592287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/natuzotarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwetuvojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eptesteplelek.com/uploads/file/xutabijaseladigebufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/1535691115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aedc459b1d6cd83bbbb7cd62de683af/pefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd174a2ae1deb2067f30aad1de21656a/todokimukakidafuvuzibedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2736084213f9f899209e46367a5a49ab/farotetegaxawigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-07-13/images/files/92625167233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/96342739455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adaab0822a---toguvivejase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=practical+knowledge+pdfPDF 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_off0001076e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076E 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 45970eab262d766c793d029f284b030fc9529847e4299dfb42af176462fa3170
font_01_sfnt_off0001379c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1379C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FB3 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0463afe8e907ba69c54807ab842feb3ce556d89be8dca98e81b3ad25c5213e