Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0c74a3ce53dbd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f3c5773b448095902c38b9f5349000fc SHA-1: 392609a34a1bd302a603a5539244b9ec08109494 SHA-256: 4a0c74a3ce53dbd6a8078b4adf25ff6acd79208d8162f07a0b7b2e5fa281b075
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number in a billing or security context. It also includes multiple external URIs, some pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://questyme.com/userfiles/file/komukorot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/savuwifewujajepadowajili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/11070774730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/45713573708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/32815993534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/84156491201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/1141513428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/towadedirufisewovenulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/12806310312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/25694152382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aminotp.com/upload/files/95173390930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210908001045_2031160415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puebloexec.com/userfiles/file/mopubojibilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizudokuputupewogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/tatigetimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/demukitimabunowaxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/mimipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr0jfd64dkh3q9c4krqjsbfsp1/sibinidegizereworesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/duvogubipikisaponujediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/14575541539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20314800032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/pidokagelafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccs38ua5c9q46dgl6d1hrrpgo5/67201975277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b90a1462d2d970340b3122144d82894/23673061663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16568903217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/nepuduputuwodaj.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=current+android+version+2021PDF 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_off0000d87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87F 18072 bytes
SHA-256: 06e8f53b1a6de26146506cb6613777eb0d2b1e8467b831b2c015de95822b9465
font_01_sfnt_off00010768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10768 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7F 10684 bytes
SHA-256: ec22d99b4f06ddfda208d43cafc4cac5e8df271b48c2f8dc97d773ac17e693e5