Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31830caa89349768…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-08 18:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 05ceddf0014b048c41071a1a07e2ce20 SHA-1: ae9c6dc80763f2003988d165b690bbd9cc3f8235 SHA-256: 31830caa89349768fc7d3ce73c58fd9919baac43de104b238b9de1460d111be4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback lure, prompting users to call a phone number in a context of billing or security issues. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing attempt designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information or falling for a scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simcity+hack+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a707f652d44---11799725144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg94sl61mpdlv11474ok2016s8/wujuzilifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1980l3ocpdtnht0qpbebl64pfd/duduralafasukelutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bucsjoc4dqkl5j85s8nvsrltu7/51970250216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8996bcb52---16936956425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59cf71eb9c---18400993911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/90419171254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8965b0d01e8c4002a865304537a5d62c/gupidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/dutekepudenajekixidokevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0237ab32f1e912adc03dbb44c3b994e1/nibusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/sukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imr157egfo1jgsneq5b6rbj69q/bivirelumejifidaripivufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/sutizagevasisojanoteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884ad552b6f---19925390241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da6efe8d7454bd34c5a948adf62296e/vatinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a378942262---nufuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE790 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 57c59bef80144aa2134e2817787c9d5fc0ec8dedd883f59607bf7eedd96e14e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F0 13028 bytes
SHA-256: 99acb17dc871a367509806524b6e42952cd42d3742ef09f48253eb20f3ea0d5f