Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bbbc9f33fad6044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-10-18 21:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 189a6d5e2b47427daf7d645a3d602db9 SHA-1: 305b2dba680eda265488522580e107b6ef398c32 SHA-256: 1bbbc9f33fad604444c5c91b3f9f2fff150c319e474dbdeff68294bb17380c29
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The document contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the callback lure heuristic indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34804108070.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://infoguard.ru/content/file/dinegerolilijokelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/sefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bd2fa51c0---migidupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/moboremipobomanuvikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614866a26bcd4---42869455982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/nelabuxivekesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maritime-models.com/userfiles/file/70600048044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/68044248683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://video-cycling.de/files/file/saboginuwarodipobumivoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47444572955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/66956607837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu/data/editorfile/91304497197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77670217780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/56176601567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klaaswester.nl/img/file/99263626902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155b2bdccc39---gixumixenowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/kikigefokotaruvexojebetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mackbeks.com/files/file/wijabolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neogmbh.de/www/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/dedonogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/79088201733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qav6saanoiup395fo4umk08r05/36114047762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/27661098721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=federal+form+of+governmentPDF 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_off0000cf9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9D 17160 bytes
SHA-256: efe94f76780bef57446f01b98089a98d0478a25e81e4f20f76924afc792d2f6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EE 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe4dea4571a1e437ce99c8b5013efa4a0deacd680bebbbf85a65adfb8f6e662