Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d325cabc0491ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-10-06 10:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e863af34f7f93274dcda4b70a2b67fad SHA-1: bf48e7d8cf787ef739e6dfa088c63556f6a1c748 SHA-256: 3d325cabc0491ece0dad7fe1da32445811e10e6d1579da73fb7215e106c376eb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further indicates a phishing or tech-support scam pattern, aiming to trick users into interacting with the document's content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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=misdemeanor+deadly+conduct PDF link annotation
    • https://urbanshapes.in/userfiles/file/23703425604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/fotimunisebiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155a1b13ea99---lixaxoveguwiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomboy2.com/images/library/File/bevirupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/22/mugepemewobasatetafovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/solokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1impilb7fvbv5hikhsf31kvfsq/simum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/gekurivudibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/40011986351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/rifeduzaduzajukakibedizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/17550722956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-21/20210921075814305519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71282646185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/82959971933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155fc1f50928---vebolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdybio.com/uploadfile/file///2021092513382921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614163daaf5f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11185115402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/bupuzisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/mojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funstore.dialog.org/userfiles/file/57314036269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161502cfe2897b---76044275276.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_off0000fc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC53 19296 bytes
SHA-256: 63e387adf8a91bd8e065deb069ea620a4ff4da8d02cf762478a8ee92734fdfd0
font_01_sfnt_off00012e9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9B 10736 bytes
SHA-256: b63d007e7c0d419ee5cc6847c44cf791e02afe5748f8537bc951c4f1347fa7b3
font_02_sfnt_off0001474e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1474E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1