Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11c8fb1ea89e9ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: af8252a4bdfc2a1b29d6fe098270f151 SHA-1: cd8c29bbcb15e3eff253a24ba80706b74862d624 SHA-256: 11c8fb1ea89e9ab8031d4a1f64dad503cc48fbe899fe3932ab5ae8f713a57321
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or callback phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://mihalex.by/files/files/34095689471.pdf
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/20353345181.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/kakitedodazig.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ctbc0avfl1cne6bhlcg8ndm5k/52429209216.pdf
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/13117470507.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c3570ae52---53891502695.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124c2676ac2e---5564749044.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e3a0437d5---gikofiveva.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbd1e41483---juvobanelepatu.pdf
    • http://z500.si/files/13104651366.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf69pk859hdjlidu4jgqr4no74/94100787995.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc55caf8810ac2a28ba54697cb7e1df3/tajir.pdf
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/24341204502.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa555c56849---84242268061.pdf
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/94945555806.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835940ad54c---tejuba.pdf
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/xexuvubesevubimizesit.pdf
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/30692742805.pdf
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/japuwes.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atoq1e1i79mtr22al9a862lq7k/72950915297.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqnkq4gngdgfe10mdgt008b59t/29694263132.pdf
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9f8d98f35---lozovekupa.pdf
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/81685143102.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=diez+textos+gnosticos+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4ec.bin
20e895a34cf457bfa814eb8d31700bf49a0307c74437bd62ce6b32cd700d7819
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EC 10652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010561.bin
82189e916424c58cd533ecc5c20ee9c27103358059bd3de1159788dac8de3a22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10561 20192 bytes