Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745923e4173fa54e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: aac65854401fd298da7035ba8f97e3dc SHA-1: dad372f615e02998d38519164f6713b13dcb3a54 SHA-256: 745923e4173fa54eda468ef882348b2d072e8d31bdc904acf0eb912d8f7432ac
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and uses a link farm pattern to obscure its true destination. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a detailed analysis of its specific payload or intent beyond the general phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/kilirofutokobada.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cde9d65f3e---tilepodivopatavunifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/31257852650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_718463AA4CA5E58A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/19477543164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614096e028444---didikudamiwatiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/31580619759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/mijiguzenotoponokalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/70662749556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f20d62f13---taziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141188e3d886---26304827468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didisixosunizulokezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.eu/userfiles/file/27164403898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ec9c49e95---934457139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terilapavezefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/losaroxemujamazeroromebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/fipavizutasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/pipuvurawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1630522288829133692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202109012350432519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/sarazalegizuxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/doxiwafojimomizikugajajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ysenb.kr/board/file/editor/file/42852991984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=best+web+browser+for+android+phonePDF 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_off0000ea21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10238 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 4a489bcccf1390cb90791cf008d774139c1c9b81b9de57c9cb1daaf6845bcfc5
font_02_sfnt_off00011b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B04 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 60218170135db4233457147e8fa6a957a8868a7e3de438ef7508a6dfcabd3d8d