Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 651f1803bdb9b9c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5a439a2e617ec7cecc225bce1d8de038 SHA-1: 1adfd365cbbdf79ff878c321bf13a187970ae257 SHA-256: 651f1803bdb9b9c799a86b163a6013c0436c13683caf7cb67217b9c3488681c6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of 'invoice' and 'payment' related lures, combined with the callback phishing indicator, further supports a phishing or scamming attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/41661501281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufasowetutidowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/66785760145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1240629637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/vetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/jewuzirujozazuwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab5464f6b9---33278993503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/90940254314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428a882c230---54435756067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9136f762b4ec4443f6dacd6ec80ec347/noligixitunafavidavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefawevagobiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphone-odklep.si/vsebina/rokodedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ace623079bfc9b78895f0bdd0a4f8a/pikawazutalixotunola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/2921938925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/73402782915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/3635074285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6d5ab2c20---fibutafalibetejawozitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/93959381888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/25231895682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9628d785f710404c899ad6ffa47a498/37555292930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/5018137815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsducthang.pgdbactuliem.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovopuzigebupiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a47ea20bf---26050011316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+new+jim+crow+free+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_off0000e092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE092 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 69c62905481f6abd49ad2c2fb7c60a40d8cd7f2a382230ff943bbe5937139a59
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87F 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 8f58d3352619fb7097b11bf996e039d86bed5c2a0a49aff9633933b23c2ea172
font_02_sfnt_off00012675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12675 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1