Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ebb34293e95ed1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 19:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f8c873efb64565ca8ca168d192d4b17b SHA-1: d9baabe7fcbd3d23446a5b981c435d99d2607ba4 SHA-256: 5ebb34293e95ed1a2a3ed0421cc3d6faae0a9358f20799b61dbb09d3556f2ac2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or link farms. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to deceive users into initiating contact, likely for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/rebenazuwodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/72295761762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a406a575ea0---59174331392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c70466ba3b---tatakogabitaloriser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/46224158721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/68838917033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b07b3f8b2---returugire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096392608e1c---zugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608101e8c8145---gumexesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50122a7a1b---29270031168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/32190434682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2f7803ddcdabb72fd8d116c7835a83/26713049165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607262c44dd53---83614857530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/nuworavenadelulesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/39245536797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/61992224176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff28b53890c1ddb14076280282f54c2/97691167543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3l7fh2g4bc0s0kj1pp3roufac/89889452268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483g935sfak9fch2t05m4cour0/poxolisibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/13693465329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f24e390aba5b82116562102445f108fe/7057282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/jagegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/61611756419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=partnership+accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+igcsePDF 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_off0000d6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C0 11188 bytes
SHA-256: ede90cbc926c78ecc690283b594e606d488d1f1f9461e6fa812959f8e4393627
font_01_sfnt_off0000f069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF069 17352 bytes
SHA-256: e76823a72023d7d4191a732222471b7b12328a10cafee37f778d5332d67b8f0c
font_02_sfnt_off00011dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1