Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49ae862bdf91ea58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ceae0918722b0b4152aaf78f8a36828c SHA-1: ef831e4a5dead3830a831aab2e115a1e50948ed5 SHA-256: 49ae862bdf91ea58742b795dbd2d90c805472d422cdb2496f9f4f38d709523e2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document likely attempts to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=95c+to+f PDF link annotation
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/64879525589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730461c7b2d---dadomutudovoboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59184a2294---75706194621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb0fc8ef48e435eab45fee96a73533b/finixagakibuwavolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e38711d0c0---88543593590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5897bcf373---dibafawufopixorafilagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58645433703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13259577687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/jexokegotibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b79296e28cbaa1f1fea20925dcb81333/74437297205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dood86jl4tiqn13lo3bpbqolh4/zodikivelisukabusifibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/jobawerubunito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/12567844877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021070416313360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d013o49fti53eohvt4e6d7qp/69950591539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/xifasojebato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/12361070936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084987cbdd88---84143832229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/41295139396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd99852ef6---93529242336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aod2s1dcabdg6m8s7uk4nguq0/78340983375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/21704442634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1672d8054---87206789400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ddc0c1aae1---fitibokakugezagewa.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_off0000d107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD107 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 6de7d26a2ae8e277177c56c4e974a6ffa23f513a45ef65db3d4bf1bd8e48cc7b
font_01_sfnt_off0001001e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11834 9732 bytes
SHA-256: c6e12056e96f47e5683bb093a948c00d37d6d882834c189d44865d6866266316