Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225d1b45c7a16fce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:57:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5a8f2328038a90d693a28f28c5994141 SHA-1: 5c5a8fcc969853e43a26bb479abf04ea12a90a7f SHA-256: 225d1b45c7a16fceee073d9ba4ca2bdf81d1233b82b230973285f214fc14e678
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the document prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a social engineering attack designed to trick the user into engaging with a malicious actor.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dcf2928bc---vivowaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210722_065625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/bunosewuwaxiwuvekofisapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848dd40a64---49656114416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d871d1fafb---xekowopojiruso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-29/20210829145640101896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/pateperuwidojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents//files/84473380202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma--style.net/files/files/86749410045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/9280033198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhs1970.com/clients/9/98/98bceae81adeaace0f0761aa7b0d12fa/File/46393339366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s623346d5alb0ld8ks9a3rekha/papakerakivodezilelobamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/43664450663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wulikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68039ce4d76706eefa70bf30dcd12d32/70702904694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/18826204440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/52763301061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmradiatoriai.lt/images/files/tewewijivakisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/tejewadirudavoripodajuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd843eb1684---dewemizaxumomijumarusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/77440988432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/51821642582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe82aadb60c8b5e381752cee8c158b0/tajulekixizivowidenadubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/xaxewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01dc88c9300d31e4da18d6583bc306ce/tifetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/jukisizixajabokuvefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=dermatitis+seboroik+adalah+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_off0000e2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FE 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 03c2a5bbc91b2e1fa109fe844c8e271c88091ce80b7e11ac8c3164819406a0e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001140b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140B 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 65de5126f7fb57da8f01fe201977f66ee54348130a62cf57ae430f5840487c63