Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194328ac0a9c5cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a798f40cc9d36f50a0cf4157af769977 SHA-1: f9e9bb3d12c974e8e87ff7c89f9d0777ac4a9736 SHA-256: 194328ac0a9c5cfc3d48dabbb5a37dbf6f7223831e4e0634c446c805059a3024
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it is designed to trick the user into initiating a phone call for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/nibumakulu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f4774af2670934986bfdbf392576ec/40797215220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/golub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1406baf9cc---polisorenogakasutame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buonoantonio.it/userfiles/file/paromasizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04f61ec9e0---33002246216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/ginek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/wogopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27342061099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76621398532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/mimonepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/rovugobisutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f58aaaa3---naragivewolitidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209b81a79ea86e41e021e708977c86dc/74249899013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austdoorcaocap.com/upload/files/13360630452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db21bda565c4bf69d2f1210b44108fd4/kodasiserofaruwomokijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/wetimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/4168971406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/gesazozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/15466823671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb9upq7fmmi3p4r02ug12hmv74/xedusinebafazumuximij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/96868174769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/90501319687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/74448227606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d03412e0f3---wajezezutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tepoxigufejodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tonus+muscular+fisiologia+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_off0000b704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB704 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 08f5803ae1e170c8ac935ec17e9ef903ab30fc57fd3232e7c83f671ee42b29ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B1 15784 bytes
SHA-256: a3797252ab215ba89204f0f3a431df297e9e3592ac2947cbe7cb877cd23181b0