Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ccfa6a143544ce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1c37298a701e0f2bda8e15b138a15e16 SHA-1: c64f607f36cf0b5da1249f0fbfcf12a7bd703756 SHA-256: 3ccfa6a143544ce392343e777d4ac0ffe0aeb2d1b09f8cd501e3d08971c8b50d
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a "link farm" with numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, and explicitly mentions "transfer sms to new phone" as a lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or scam campaign. The document's content and structure suggest it is designed to trick users into clicking on these links, which likely lead to further malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Travel-support phone-number stuffing scam critical SE_TRAVEL_SUPPORT_PHONE_SCAM
    Document repeats phone numbers in airline/travel/refund/support language, often across multiple regional phrasings. This matches SEO/support-scam PDFs that impersonate airlines or travel brands and route users to attacker-controlled call centers rather than a normal travel document.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36752929300.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/mogowukoturep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/91007589334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/bujoselubepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujugume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23881855449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e77f6768e---wefinakopupedubetipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/51277026976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/saviguvikapakoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/tevajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/77259379186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/tawudijoziduxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/kesemodovebitamisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/dakatuwume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144137620dd3---95501407642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/wawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorbolivia.com/userfiles/file/43693224009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/fuvirikozenuwijegazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/21425154070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfafe9aaa8---41869179907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/vakawexuluniparafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrapanel-alegjobbfutes.hu/userfiles/file/36690131082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/72802400706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+sms+to+new+phonePDF link annotation
    • 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000ef43.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000ef43.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF43 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 4a2e44dd3536f4fd3585efedaef079c89f6b08209afddd97f614469b25f9a2b8
font_01_sfnt_off0001072b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F3D 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 86015a80ddaad0e32dd9de54e0396a2291838beacd774127f2569dbebdc0faed