Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4190d237f45ca28c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e5c9f194dd205e5c86216f1348fbbe54 SHA-1: c3b6899a633d645ea84375ed11cbe18a257200f5 SHA-256: 4190d237f45ca28c74b38c9661766e8b5828d96c667beaa7925b73b00189d419
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for fake issues. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to direct users to malicious content or initiate fraudulent phone calls.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/21457394041.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/folinokizanafanelifivapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://channelletterguide.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21705462828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squarcialupirelaxinchianti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/68181195512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsbrite.com/kingsbrite.com/userfiles/file/dulexekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e08a24895---xidiripebarogidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/xiruxivazuvafawolajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/pezajixovabube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/rusonesetagedogovupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujezewotagisibado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/4565040871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37756823967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/74134099497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakubewuveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenapikanuvagimipasefola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/57209991881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/69909984784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3m18.com/images/editor/files/jatemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/bokekonijisewerek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/40694709872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06cc4e0a901f5fd035e7fc3d961f2cb2/18218224711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/poneluzanefofetufufive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/baleletofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090211021098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62c0ed6a27de092dc21972316c252f9/pibuloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+student%27s+grammar+of+the+english+language+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_off0000e616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE616 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE28 17976 bytes
SHA-256: f3b590a22925dff427dcfdfd77a697e997d8f4bc66839c44fc6a658d100bbd3c
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE9 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 289a7bb2b9c018b2cee9e66649bc33e809a16ea87e2ad2f83d7d8a9089c330d6