Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fbabccd0f3f6280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1a90724d618f6465c37b8fd14aa6e2cb SHA-1: cbdef1b9f571a32b588a5b8e8fbaac607179637c SHA-256: 1fbabccd0f3f62807935c1dc48262b3e01a7d6ccd3c23d0ef3276ee2fbd2b6d2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm and a QR code or phone number lure, consistent with phishing or callback scams. The embedded URLs point to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/20610042103.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://csam-villepinte.org/uploads/images/file/fozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12328867445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138707ab6ef5---tekutunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43800693072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.com/SapmaUserfiles/file/zepamawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/kimupiduwaxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/foguwemerabujezupenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/vasenazizufodosotefuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/dotuxizujusizedevekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b37c348b5a---siwimisuwigafipozejimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/29969175721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfda666ccaa9ab864bfea794818e5c73/56720211656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/84981941501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73382962902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.ro/editor_up/85336340486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1ebe56089ed7328636732c14e1cba9/25169775778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210905053010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3416ngjglmu604160pek330d7/70348178714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021991735178849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/fowejodomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393abc4a6f8---tefunexamona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/raris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2f7266b11---lugovogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/kijatorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16648121936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+scan+the+qr+code+with+your+phonePDF 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_off0000d984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD984 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 63dcf186d02a8ab2e134d78adc8eb1d5f2659d258a9487b0c2c16a0beba68b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0001082f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12046 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 43a0736d5a1bc9ebda484104381d8a441cb4ae5cf535897c1cac23d372505404