Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78ed2973344e9852…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: eeb69e0e043f1bb94ca0a41c5b2338f4 SHA-1: 220d4a34ba7985d48ce24f1225fccbee3f80e9a2 SHA-256: 78ed2973344e9852fc6d1ef60360fe0e4ebeb2e9886c9457ea8c8f47aca0d6e6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to potentially compromised websites or to initiate fraudulent calls. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the callback lure pattern strongly suggest the document is designed to facilitate phishing or scam operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vio+bank+savings+account+interest+rate PDF link annotation
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/54002725922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b128425e8e3---pekamutowemanabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a219c002b254f3880bb509627d1ae7c/texorigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumatoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d5a44fd29---vovopuvizerisazutewitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozemovonasedenozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780c67aa0dd---silojigapaletexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/kexumamuvalaniseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88734648018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/28128279475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_8432BFBCEED97AAD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/talujavunenamazafiliget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f1904449f9d6ec26a4d16adb545110/kumadorodegebawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnqifv5988oa28ibpt27757fm9/14842681712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF552 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2db6e7b68e1f5230100cdfdc67676fdb71943fae2cc63ab7c03bf0bed36411
font_02_sfnt_off00010e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E37 17004 bytes
SHA-256: c2279f7e3da4c7378aadd290be6482d50b17c9d4752663892c657a53397f810a