Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 211e4c3394e96e22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: fdd386b584186265b7eea2a047cc022c SHA-1: 89962ef5e7f141fe58a147704fb9024a9648dc88 SHA-256: 211e4c3394e96e22a1dc32936a7d602a457a9bc518867c944e61061c8a5db643
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document prompts users to call a phone number, a common social engineering tactic for phishing or tech support scams. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/sunavup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/4202361405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43305766711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6f3d18868---funuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42666471152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/gakeborizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/kukopurisukaxejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/60990901407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/62728440807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdental.hu/editor_up/fimeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/dipotadezibedabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c6f21b35d---tatudujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31164582187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/46826801796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/63486732055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/2171977292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fevabaxojefofozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/4042179733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/mezugubukewasivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ab733ea39---sitezirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/19555848444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/78620227898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/28405187661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/winazisafavotuxopufozupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/lumivogekilobemelevemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/jojodilinoteluzopamazene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fnaf+security+breach+obeyPDF 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_off0000d05f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE871 19628 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae2206f7e64d83e7bdbd7bf44fc6850704c9ba0d30e97f7962baf1b03de4c7c
font_02_sfnt_off00011b76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B76 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 33700778213ba016ef541edf063d2ee75fdef09eb8fc710bce157383a44ba464