Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71e7670535cbb9c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5339391c2983171a03f1e561bed5ff05 SHA-1: 042ecd5ddde80a8593d69d28077a90ebbc2907a4 SHA-256: 71e7670535cbb9c847a2c5b436e45d9cb3679031fedb609def4a93a6f0edddaf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document intended to deceive users into contacting malicious actors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/53169482943.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://educaholistica.com/resources/img/imagesck/files/64817349470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ityab.com/cache/fck_files/file/foxamogoxepufinakadukana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/49606082797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okgwa.net/50/files1/file/78498062890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacartedesign.de/userfiles/file/rakupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/34932429992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143df33c2181---59945283411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9299c3a4481e0ac8aec4209f0a440c/mulupajojogekegufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiwadegajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7serve.org/userfiles/file/20210916010213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4666e496e14c3187409e5f5106f90c/tawubawidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/71717690238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/43496613225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/98770573312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///bijesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/96602717897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/39883200744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109101344252044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1e8b8528c---ligeluvipoludikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c372b6a202---30830531953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxdyzs.com/userfiles/files/jiwugalepevemezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7drvgqae2h3v0busmlkp3k5ka7/sarojasinamifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+caller+tune+in+androidPDF 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_off0000d9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F7 17420 bytes
SHA-256: e5a98b72403062c4dd0f2bfa6cf9ebc963daa3678c575b4bb0052d0b72fa6cb5
font_01_sfnt_off00010732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10732 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 734afd62a83e1034b489346a6209d9572c7eb7814ed9abd3ddac010bf8c5f9a6
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1