Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407eab120b640932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:17:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d82fd0781c869ac17a2570d515d3a5f7 SHA-1: 9205569c81da1bbc555c9c7d7f664a46185b105d SHA-256: 407eab120b640932b96b89f1599598396e3755d81c616e1cc0597c7932525c1a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting the user to call a phone number for issues like billing or refunds. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites or facilitate social engineering attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/35562156310.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dof8ld392dpibs4o2nd2g5qhe2/jatenobiravukides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125219552337---mukowido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu8n2micadj3nqhsprimq7c7uq/bubufupiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad59a815a62---92299382268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/8521519862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsaimmigration.com/userfiles/file/74122205429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdaa74a3188---zimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c65b4ccbfb---jipavimejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/lofujifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/binigebagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6725b38dd---kofipotegegewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/terelufanejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/mebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fmm6jhp9jfv4lm98u9bo1pse2/mugite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xelulezorekazibaxesapiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyd.rs/images/file/9330122091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/sefaworinamanudivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/13354943772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210727112320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/pipalusamujezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/furup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14813471181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbgq09p9gt5qkuv97672ee9mns/44484910522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe6779bba1---jetavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicupclose.com/clients/f/f7/f7c291dfb329fbc33054893077acf627/File/46417603536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/moxifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rounding+to+1+decimal+places+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D9 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 015a0d65ab1554cc089522e1c5273fbe1e732a8d636fc33ccca28ed6aa046827
font_01_sfnt_off000116ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC2 11336 bytes
SHA-256: f379ed62684917142527b5a55aa7c135a792901651890e9bd3fdd7c4db717e4a