Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e77809f124f1cac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0780814f7126be7eb458e9cc0861e468 SHA-1: 16144ae72db42f8763caf43a2b62f266fbd987cb SHA-256: 2e77809f124f1cac5e5b70aa56c46c2aa1c5f042d8b276060a99cfe3a3dc8285
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, consistent with phishing or scam lures. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically suggests the document prompts the user to call a phone number in a context of billing, refund, or security issues, which is a common tactic for tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simulador+de+plc+para+android PDF link annotation
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/24457176862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/43688410517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45762027156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniontsg96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabupivixutonanikixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210901165251_1858732235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shceping.com/upFile/photos/2021-9/file/61126974263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438e5b8009b---63132660487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/38947415939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/93945809681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/ruwiguwapapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/lezokimudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/bafesitujekaxugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cultureresortpokhara.com/assets/userfiles/files/91012616823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1d4a2e883---12947154626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/76609393082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/19953901491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/24383875090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krr-nfe.com/suratnfe/UserFiles/File/35150438878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janaturismointegrato.com/uploads/file/62685944180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/vixinatugiwozajovuzula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021090508474473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/53011288683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613356c30b8ed---48168173063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/fugepenevezevifuwovef.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_off0000d3b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B4 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 5e6fb5157c05b96fd1ba25631debb38cc7e1c71cf43749182c7b9eab00cf2ec9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CC 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 5f49442fe29e793cf17b5af7618b2c8cabe25980f718bb834bf03b044854e506