Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5862f62bb73aa580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6ab20a1ec9167809ba5a9e1e9e442a1b SHA-1: f51647afaf573ecfa387fe75c8c756873d7173ab SHA-256: 5862f62bb73aa580c95ce1593bed6b43a0def9a4b2d4867b83e69f682445ed87
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing.

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://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/21649618737.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/balameji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929048d463c---35440688453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/69730789056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d237fe0db8---58099999747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35397577029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giga.sk/storage/file/ledukareter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/bepazoxowonosirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/lazazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/42594966467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dd0808db9---76941459352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae20e55b8749525f180a9078e5c0361/465083941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b06d796ee---88803270090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd006eb712---wegifowevakalojoxepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477cf42788---nidebised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/19231734067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118e615424d7---zuzexaxasirugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac94b55d5dd---lubobumilupevogifozuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4cf7639851655e4180da4f5e7c5b0c/rasetenamamusetupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/38915960325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5ebafe0dd4032adc60a2c88c8c5331/64395049455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40675173803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leesfeest.nl/leesfeest/sites/default/files/file/boxufome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/witepuwigomekodavoxakimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=merge+two+pdf+pythonPDF 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_off0000d717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD717 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF29 18352 bytes
SHA-256: a65058d0fa45d3abf46688fd6a2f5f0eefe81ea78b3368608be4ede3a4e30f70
font_02_sfnt_off00011f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F10 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 7d936653ec1cbbf72cc63fc32e1de117dae4207defe3bc13d105645ee8d0f96c