Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f2e95fa13123d3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 04:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 747c6958d87a9c387603635911caab10 SHA-1: fb92ea194473959536520e9a6d2ef8a3d4f0c271 SHA-256: 4f2e95fa13123d3f50a5a3aa0efe728a5b671820ee720f5ae52934678a18f401
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in callback phishing and tech-support scams. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it may host or link to malicious content, potentially exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b0a585a62---93251825659.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79708af00---zipanaloneselepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi70fubjfqk8j3sdutidgaia3t/5425028602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabavuxizukurukalafozara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espokebar.com/uploads/files/52824839612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbo0c0gs55dpc8va8140vbar8g/titosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/19449662300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/moxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/99742853044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bc7bc2794---vogaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/5262828706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608479f990891---lonilatafiduboket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/wobufiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/74883623210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0355d4c58d705caec3c1558f6df5749b/pisikokematujukimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/corsg1v5lv8n1e4776l4d5q0v6/neroxizurusojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/garimulerazizabobomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/duvetusitezetavidogurafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cphs1970.net/clients/877309/File/wuxivunoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16rn9rl7d6e602e50r9ch6rnio/jixosedavurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c037b541cb5---17556197238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/merejupapugimoligizevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210726230642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bose+soundlink+speaker+2+firmware+updatePDF 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_off0000fb63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11375 19944 bytes
SHA-256: 239beeb6dd113e9a1c1c25eabe119b9f408ae22c58ada9a7cfb8fd7b9c9a2325
font_02_sfnt_off000146a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146A8 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 110542742b6d34acb64974e739167fd027348a10cda9458af30244c7fa82dc89