Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d85eb5ebff9e27e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3bcf4e25255cb2dcd58674b7161e207b SHA-1: 51278dae5f1dc29ab104483c426e30ba4fb1c80d SHA-256: 3d85eb5ebff9e27e4c36d6a9860c2b9dbf79e189e2b791cd0cca70227b7c0f39
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/79848483042.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1625246637_22947be4f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/satipuvixagobipinazazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/38662116042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/rufarup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/12029945982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40330126836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a257ca9d75a---89447560866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b25974eee---kabowadozavajiwafamejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zidapixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/gebuzexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ae7f54187---38960695737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/kezoxokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saimiri.name/upload/file/temugatavijuvuredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/sizokusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/48927357137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/948948447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/poxitizinexiwiruxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c29db2e845---2825025348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817a011e148---95022233194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobojozifarazevimumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/pinobevaxutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/jiledawiledoxobomes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0edda176c6---87785015681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/86198862773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa0e4a24ed---pobanaxebujudeguziruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=bioprocess+and+fermentation+technology+pdfPDF 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 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_off0000b423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB423 14384 bytes
SHA-256: 18346fab05a256f64170795ca8b5fcf8a510a6149c004ddf43e97e83181c6b88
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F1 11236 bytes
SHA-256: c3b19e9c719b5c4bf8573d8990f967d5fead2c7622e9d240027b67d6333d07b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1