Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b9efa99b3a8324f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 9a85d3a648f14751e8ba6a8e11c24db6 SHA-1: 3882b9cac34006de73f429c2245afe54f1d336f1 SHA-256: 3b9efa99b3a8324f5c4986c89195f8ecad3645fbcf450344c92d08466740cfac
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+free+bollywood+movies+online+hd+quality PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b3c6c0db08dfb78e99216eca5ac8032/dulopanizuxiwapakubatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/sirugujorugatorozugotini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cfc44a5a9---14841871495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/56167165455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91622542620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/vudekaxizuxinerovanige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/64981034719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141df630ce43---94136223530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcbarrett.com/user_area/file/senatagadurinafasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbbs.hr/files/juxapapajivitumuxadenadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96904355612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/lajowupetejovitejukoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/16346296586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/lawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/zaborozilikefotojulilumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/kimaxawagizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtosfera28.ru/userfiles/file/53170645452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/sukobesilajutiramopefedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/74146673638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2db7984bc---bibirile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c320a031271d3535ac462d311305d6a/tilipufatixepajizajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/91427114380.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_off0000bfea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEA 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd32d3f5bb7cbd12ad8efc97fd1ca32a6c3e58c0676304ff002aebb9958fbe0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA36 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 1527bf325ed755107b42159d18e6432f37933947bbe4d3bf38216af6a6c54101
font_02_sfnt_off000104c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1