Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31f914509080224c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 02:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a4e80a385e87a6a5e669a90ddd824049 SHA-1: 881996f28faba9f9621c6c6ab0745e7d89994a3b SHA-256: 31f914509080224c5347a0159a698fc8e0fab775fcd615033e58345a4d89f73e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic and numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated in the provided excerpt, likely aims to deceive users into contacting a malicious actor under the guise of resolving a billing or subscription issue. The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+voicemail+on+doro+phone
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisetolofuguwibijori.pdf
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/xaxizafimerowi.pdf
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/ribagowanobakop.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610304beeafbb---bezurejavikifonid.pdf
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/10918540480.pdf
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156db1b6e1bb49329a5ebf8262b45688/77772098689.pdf
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/90433310265.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df5b6fa37384d0735cbd260d09fdd1f/69284842804.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/zafis.pdf
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210615030101.pdf
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/muxulevajuxavuluputu.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608569c8d8bf2---86882043046.pdf
    • http://sportsclinicwest.ie/media/contents/file/xuzis.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079005ca3291---kefomegafip.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ad2da174f92396e8af2c6601ea225a/75090088532.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93205b1c2462a0cb6f5a010fc02d8725/90724919009.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bfadc8b21---runezapitepozuxo.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751e5d7b53d---rabixemin.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f917c9d38e---liduzofiduf.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7d9eb8b90cbff3708e9db3f89a4dc2/mekosasewejeguf.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd692082762---31731371132.pdf
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/53129529988.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc6c.bin
fbb98d9d9b3c896c7c0386a871a84a76f2d773025d9339c108cd0678c4678888
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6C 10960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5a3.bin
552fb18e3dccfa6b74fd167cb115d28dac8123793f83bfe4e5f8896cf432d059
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A3 16100 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF58 16792 bytes