Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81799021baf15cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 01:41:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5430f453b62acf2f24326907853c8bfa SHA-1: 7c15d9fbca65873a4c01657d4393d7520ce1e052 SHA-256: 81799021baf15cb7d23a6c1fdd89403a003f4f6e0803f297f435f5a6dcf29d53
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to various URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest the primary goal is to trick the user into initiating a phone call for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hard+reset+sharp+aquos+softbank+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/bunemubupedojinizabubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/nigipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugupigosuliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/86750779076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/48247588774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb3c7c02df9e58ca1b1ddd890ae20a61/5446802683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn0fp593l7ishut4vmtf5s67sn/domarurokalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/zumirobusawijorelewefiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83143c9d2029d2c7a24ee2c159193669/34551592683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/kojelusixaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210507072750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepogabepipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beea36e7f3e---16728196136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb123b06bd91ae2a7e2fce5d15ae2408/mobelixonunotitababez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9802f050f5---sudinizuzoxugida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/bigodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/dakera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9bdaca67ffd5f2e0a273cec44632c3b/58466815952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekivokojefixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70d58aa67a---61620727310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/47997436460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/71196899589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2b35ff673c661fdc301e05f62589ae/45366297262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7547ce33d1---53663790732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c097b3367---58907033213.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AF 2188 bytes
SHA-256: 057ad8b96a163eb9c87a3f5c2e0e5a9381d43b18605b4e8c4631e585ef06e92f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 36388c4c85078ee24e8ae94ba23b0f85c858f1773f4e86958920f3adc3fb7650
font_02_sfnt_off000114c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD4 18996 bytes
SHA-256: 506a42b9282839b5252eb4852e11364a59c4273b7c882ac9b38a4b810376bb89