Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 812a1fd4db9b6e45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 09:00:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 5cb35a4e536638ca012e56aae619fe64 SHA-1: 9c76aa6177bb33d3ae0323e7e65b2be3c31d9925 SHA-256: 812a1fd4db9b6e450157481769c5af9336c714f7b80ed2f50ae6e1efa473cb77
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an effort to obscure the true malicious destination. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://veno2.com/upload/vowinosaneximugedarizuru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/ruwifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/63521953750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/66454698833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e85424bd9e796970038b209e8e7a6c/tepalujozupasigozanebavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe79be02dab4f6c7295e399e8f794b0/41984703589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/nerokuboditiwuxodosifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u28k97pl821gnvhjknfp5kdaav/38733326918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/46090597869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/58085228141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/45802504605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpb9iu8gc11um6usobpg1emhv6/doxozuxewofuvogavidaloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/65117294141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/jisakoxipudakixozatipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/poxidogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/wuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf41c2db921---17207073333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///64349434601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc009b5e5af6f4561bbee1f18ba93a0/50707882343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d5af422ae---36798563584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9aac63fff---xarazapedutatuvexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3n2jk4pa7l1ebqnoagjpocimm/radixapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i25eu48i4982fhpss9rmj2b3au/80134894705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/lajozexugemadudawolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=concealed+carry+class+new+mexicoPDF 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_off0000d4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F2 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 516e6ff11651e650ddd751530e8ddc68e8e420f9e6d2b93f68389a0cc0f3b1d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10057 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 89c95da91858db5b32cfc5c01e5a7f9529820d76635db97131469eaec95e6926
font_02_sfnt_off00011931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11931 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1