Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 274176743b86bbd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:31:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d4c58024b31989aa02b13d310cc63ffc SHA-1: 853bdaa9e8b0f007eeb1c06b93ee3b9b8c468035 SHA-256: 274176743b86bbd23f570c704a316252f4fb1d300eada329fa86b26888fc6123
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF containing a callback phishing lure, instructing the user to call a phone number in a context of billing, refund, or security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics point to a phishing or scam attempt leveraging compromised websites for hosting malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/88241185851.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34f36b4b0acec0d873bee63fa1216d3/rabosesopojoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af72625ad25---77963228456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef7c734f5562f4efe303573049a6d47/jilarufozuzopenazejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/88897616191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/95035665510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/48464297051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/siboxanovarazusolanazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb07f26694e5e2754849a6b2a0c2c99d/kavemilanirorubajizutetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/lemonagipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93371f0031d42eaccd0933ed5a56fae8/gilaranalezarojinedopavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/poduwavipewulizoritag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f0b3696eee77d2d6bcfc4d53fd02f4/fowixafelikobijozevubikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/selotowubodekalukolagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1875b1019c---43934095097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdabd013804ac31b82615d1402c22cfb/95108814696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otvvdcq8eht3apfu82adkl247o/zipezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/xaromesudedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rojipukizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d278f1fea---dovekunoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/zonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0db01c032b---jajujowukefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b098af03a54---wumidukejurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32b740755695d509832032aef6b4abb/rifipubunikoreguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d701d68df4---8199082834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=heart+sonography+pricePDF 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_off0000f955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF955 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001116c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116C 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9c66b20ad538041d1f6335e4f8c16ef127ec18ed480793f5569ced58e1aeb9f4
font_02_sfnt_off000129f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F9 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 79e6cfcf1bf3e91124258e4e1a111fe631023060aa063e06870c55b6ac710498