Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6e1d1435377cf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 168ac417bd8b612d92af664a5c6e8ad4 SHA-1: 679ddfd0000bd03fd78e124072ef2b32e999039b SHA-256: 4d6e1d1435377cf2b628cba5f354a84f753d69774dce8c5985b50a140a0d1918
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'Callback phishing phone lure' heuristic indicates a potential attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/24695011953.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/jurotuzewifisinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/farogevasetupolutozugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/7502715537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/24728126287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/kexekojaremenabefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/31745968630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a2e9c983d---45169897403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a07fb28cc---tesibebowudugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/58677663771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4d3346d0c---zixejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/nonabivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1412977f9c7448e821149a4942457166/19280472098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe6edf7f20aceb60911b4291bb28bb2/pinukimokelewetigutekoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0b6d3ed2---15759844609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a851d9ee3d---wagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dfae25c2a---24990337115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/20700310775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b97f35f07cef1285aacc60cfaf6e8f/pafipebubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/29682424742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efcaa10e83---50073012834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716152e3263---poniwuledabujidajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/19263943843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f1b49ae29425c219f82398343abfbf/55211289688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=automatic+control+system+kuo+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_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 1970552526fc5c6ccdaee6a68376aff737775b0b18235fc27431c178cae234ce
font_01_sfnt_off00011960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11960 11068 bytes
SHA-256: b44d466a29b7e87af58779055591bfb6610630ca2b1179e9b09163248ab1f060
font_02_sfnt_off00013332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13332 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1