Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1faea06e886e77fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 63a54a117ceb0f7587e3f7867d5c71f1 SHA-1: 096b0d0e2d6ed8ce6d523693ea01cde07e49d1c8 SHA-256: 1faea06e886e77fbb3150488d4519e4427ee6a5c34cda9a8d1b8791751e4cbe2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI links and the callback lure heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=no+country+for+old+men+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/36932431845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/dubex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/xagukezazufufoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedesco.pl/userfiles/file/gekarama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exteractif.fr/pictures/2/lofitutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxm.pl/userfiles/file/28664086137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/waderubadosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penasesanozeseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/41026821878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/68653247137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/15755205900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427eea2e684---50193718797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/pasewusilabajemikijomezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/45357145737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/42205980354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caminodesantiagoenmoto.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jutexinurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/86847232146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lepaparodotenajefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/29592760668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d0912ebfbbd9e63882870b0174cea0/junuvigasesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/665d9f7da89a35ed3b99c23dfdfd9aa3/muzowudodinozubufurajidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabajuvafajaxexoxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/95539621239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19608390714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1941be3c223fd1d9df61edee1f41319a/55602206152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC260 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 8fe19e35aa80721159921b73c414abd72bad515bb09d04b8711a4bf5c0772162
font_01_sfnt_off0000db50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF362 17980 bytes
SHA-256: a4d56770ce719a6e0dd618372094969ba197e020c7e3d8de12adef7b96430be4