Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 791dd9033afeefeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a1422e30ceb584cba37314124a07d5d4 SHA-1: 6583773076e1694f168089061361d070890eaba3 SHA-256: 791dd9033afeefeb6530da1d17c1cf31ee29a4593e31877cf9b7f056ad25d8dd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicate a phishing or scam attempt. The file likely serves as a lure to direct users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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) 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grant+proposal+cover+page PDF link annotation
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68123268075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/dokowovubilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917631c67f6---fipebugetosinikibutosedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beaec0184d---mewowajimaxemiwimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g00g6n380737a66lk4bmm5oqu2/26648225894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d8c0c4da90b2489b62f9cce6375eba/39434441709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/13655884741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/xozimaneloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1623419565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/tuzitakuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/52409161151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91227323308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a077fe914dba506c36a357494d55229/gamekukuxavikuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/6555708265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bojerrr62kflg4mr1s5gl3ri61/97079904111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6542434fbff82c31a87d5d4167cf45/56146134378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e8c689689572a9e57cdd93dd6f830ab/14028378892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/49441223311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/686d49e4b7a11fad8e5761d0467fcec2/nivakavosivolovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92aabddc17db6939a9c40c383ed535fd/97978297051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5da7ae9174---vudenadexobibujosotipujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/86076263471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7c27e3585342197e7c77f4d4c4fab1/9713659239.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_off0000d30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30D 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0728637ee774223ac0dd50a9bdbfa79e2588d88dacc62f44d0ab41f30863c5c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001036e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036E 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 2a33242a8e1b217b83217ef3aef30158f5bc3ecef39651048ef8df578baa55b4