Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66652b41b4f8ad09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1934df190d5365f00fe516fb2a502954 SHA-1: 3aff56651feac956fde3508b0ec929990d4d7a97 SHA-256: 66652b41b4f8ad09ebdbc3787c2a367a70b3e554da30a5ed8e9f7e8d62a4b375
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, typical of tech-support scams or callback phishing. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific heuristics and numerous embedded URLs points towards a malicious document designed for social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://flomogroup.com/upload/files/wusuzasutadef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477798bbf3a28f6de0758d1f8ebb5734/titiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/bejabuliwoniborawanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/vonanezuzanexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/83565947786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/wuxugozitisonusugezowuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/mupirujesapivusobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/sejibuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/23917494110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/49850676936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fababc641d03318466e4562b493385fe/jumimiritugufobiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d4f312c68---tefabufoduxozaliwesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/duribabojora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/69230379206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/wimizufasezuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/vedemarisomozamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/13922513267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjsos2sst3a1427v2h77082kjf/jomenadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/zatabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogafelokozatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/29889469291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5s59pra7c64hg7h2g8vii6ecdr/kedopatugekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=scary+words+that+start+with+bPDF 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_off0000d57d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57D 10600 bytes
SHA-256: b515ffb505283307d7bfa737f63fe4e7f5dee019bd0d030a98c5f1104c0033d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 4649bb183454eb723885690bf7debf832d5461f3488d3f359b3816e787f39ec1