Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ddbc14938a60d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 03686bbc63caa2d79fcf2f451495ac02 SHA-1: 625105e6f599fea26d9dfe95b2d5812657576abc SHA-256: 4ddbc14938a60d6f58ea955f46f8398fa676764b502dc65f02f6fd3afe57544f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or scam campaign. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic confirms the document's intent to trick users into calling a phone number under the guise of a support or billing issue.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://chayka-svg.ru/files/79041156150.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761a9845e25---6070462166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc047033d7f---7038508991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/diwafobevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piscesappliances.com/userfiles/file/vinifarejexulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/80787082844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents//files/tedunubaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/59395418371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbe683667e---81602984415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210710195229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/bexogidibokerefapiragedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hornets88.com/clients/56662/File/tubajudojosomolowaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/53859423219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b27e8667c---36124628026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd940411aa241a84b85f9580f23928e9/89573353098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608278a2c8a66---dinegemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09a09d5815---bulisewipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/jixagigeguzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/62361508388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/39795784376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380128cfe7fd51c2fab7213adf8cb278/96732576963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29476874f9---naguleviterew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/29422926329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/vowokexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/zudujorovorujetudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=carbohidratos+de+absorci%C3%B3n+lenta+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_off0000f96c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001117e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117E 18524 bytes
SHA-256: 9e69bff42b1b8f19008979ff9a30ef869eb994bb2e86caca73f89a63c32ea836
font_02_sfnt_off00013fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FC0 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 5170273c3154eabaf9da1c7250765f081e2c91568baf952d2bb51843d2e0c13a