Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 614007a35ca42e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0dec5803b48bbc7e002b9eb46bac2da5 SHA-1: cc1a5396e0bde8ec68b23fefa4c3175175d71cfe SHA-256: 614007a35ca42e23462257418c4dbe87418e0166fd39f33892dba0d8bbcee7a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, likely related to phishing or social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46255760933.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/tijojadesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59184a2294---75706194621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/duxibakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps9il1i4uci70ug6inmufe55f4/28486445148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derosulenodurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/kidojiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd3778c0aa---67687901659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/bojamojamaniwijezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/fojizibakoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/xupiverukanumokanubepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fabb99fba---678374259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910286771d5---67703904537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/99925658028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/vamakexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/33856256091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f602966975a20942ab26e28abeaf96ab/zufotimaneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/fipeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fff1bb89df1---dolubekolefajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d3e72792---latifimenupasanugozidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/83006278801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9f5c477f0---duselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd44d833c02285b9702e589a39133ad0/miwalokuseneruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/fikuretonijirixasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=red+hat+linux+6+commands+with+examples+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_off0000f49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB3 11284 bytes
SHA-256: d507118e7aac6b30141334e3d2d77b959bceb27c5b7c5035bc5d5d8b2659031b
font_02_sfnt_off00012720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12720 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 904adee579fd32a08f9811593e9f3a338f5f5c21cda5e450a122d669f956c42a