Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5847a3130a6327f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8049279604a5c7a90fda1bf92c09206a SHA-1: e425996c0b7e33ff1c9a3bbe7327e7a2970eed84 SHA-256: 5847a3130a6327f34571bc8065a844cfeb438b19fba5db06ec5d751bddea49d8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns that may leverage embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/93376595819.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/texupegisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611aff5decc0e---83003148193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnomatec.cl/upload/file/3992096287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/bewabolurapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/57708643139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieiras.pt/imagensprodutos/file/wejovemalafinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44852087435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/vuwuxasoxazeworazimumosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/98535060840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/weripojunuxoziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5ce3066bb3058c61b77005186a0cfb/tabuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202108291845466720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833fbc7f0ee---xisuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9381736fd9---pijobadadudunomejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b14577c69ea5d74ee6af5f76c42a4a0/69245538986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biserica-izvorul-tamaduirii.ro/files/tidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210901094925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66467802aa---65821654591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/95268382901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baeb6df1ff8---23375204619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4j4sl2gdloaoin4scfgbk6mr8/15638887886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroszvilag.hu/userfiles/file/dikunamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984013c9391---76603179350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/81402892187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=thina+thanthi+news+paper+yesterday+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_off0000d4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE3 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 38d2f7bb76cadef211e42343c6abf25258d931975e158aea7b070f0bcfa8f47b
font_02_sfnt_off00011cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFF 10592 bytes
SHA-256: f8caa7b10e88c66931c7b987b44853014b2e9eacf7fcdfbaaa7dbfba8e14adb9