Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 579ce088f5fb6842…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:30:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4bf1236498a261847e5b7ddec0c706b1 SHA-1: 73ad90be400abf7c5517f30f4229754be10de78c SHA-256: 579ce088f5fb68425e2ff71cbe458e43cd7bc24d8d79381a2f8810dde948627d
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised domains or disposable hosting. The document also contains lures related to invoices, payments, and callback phishing, suggesting an attempt to trick users into financial fraud or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://artdental.hu/editor_up/pasazoxobemaxinigudolis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/verifipeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/gozupuzizizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/jorume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/raxilozemitobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351a05f27ae---50206999794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e9a87a797---runuxilemuvomibepelapoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/4381565197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/gosetatujuwijigoxafekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/ruritaxedutukijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/kaxazotezulamojitusamimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/11431025112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85369176137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/dozixugutupevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69a26788cb74950280c28d632de4fc9/77805414259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodobashi-church.com/16902965468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364ff70a527---75257719800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306dfdb94ae---42547477704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/pufuzilupuxomivetugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/vemunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dutemexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/leladolazokinezili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/39779381922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/fofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedemenodakufogupibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hdfc+ergo+motor+claim+form+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_off0000e42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3C 17740 bytes
SHA-256: f0188a6ba9d0d3a67ee4eb991925129543e57e716db8bda5b0f772a11d770270
font_02_sfnt_off000129f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F8 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 560cc8256055c60e251902b6102c20e89198899e29a037d6e8758e966e04d74c