Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 389c1e7edf85a154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:50:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cb7fdb9d65bfdc26799bd2a13ffead1c SHA-1: 6609c9f5823d10e0fc549b92684a0cc025edd622 SHA-256: 389c1e7edf85a15445f13685a9795fb67266e1fec754100930ac7363a924acd3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=13+reasons+why+tyler%27s+dad PDF link annotation
    • https://indianpowerliftingfederation.com/userfiles/file/zuranuzubaligepoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/piwukegatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqp9foapann7ti8rra525crutv/vavefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af10736bd1---24550451201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/66635098611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54dc7a1090b12c69315ab64bdd7cb1df/nusedarizireralofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhisah.com/webroot/img/files/83529765205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2159b100af456b82743c0875188540/xeniwomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84786675987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072600484073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d3f0c7965e0e18ce7eb1e56c037965/mozajikozimasojesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/2183830769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0ifahcuhvipc6a1af7t3s0jl/93758482071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/60383247152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/79656930275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429045955810674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3e8221cb7---jibizufosedexigifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7aqgaprtludnntbieaqbktmgp/xowanetitogimimota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/97717904400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1985933ad4---24426056189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886f6b110d8---kilelafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d097e4693c921ab1e076705fb7ae973/komosipusoxuxikigaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/13939970005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9a9cce237---jobixumevanorebula.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_off0000eb11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB11 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 063c25ffa55b179bb329582189582d5f28f277e3571ff0c9537f0f16a30ec628
font_01_sfnt_off0001197f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13196 10612 bytes
SHA-256: c252eb1622d11cd59b8de4ba541f58d923795c93921da96687b50ec699fb6eab