Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82e6bbbfcb361694…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-28 08:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1f4c3c5d678fa8630ae708477da18cf1 SHA-1: 6f8bc099bfb6ce48285ad4b4cf27028c4f9ee1d9 SHA-256: 82e6bbbfcb3616947d869927f0f8be37849c7611ea25285f0c7bd8907b40ba61
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may prompt users to call a number for fraudulent purposes. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17996524263.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08716eb516---nufilomuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e5d227bd3---33100503947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/wivawedofebedeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b3c6a52d2184e32a5413e489bae973/91838333725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42454c8508---kojoxitonewolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/55846996511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d184l7c908603ud12onanqh1n7/7967702226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/bebadisamidafovizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd6qoci56g0f1tul0sk4m0chbt/nevofanumewananuneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49869157092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sng3obnnvb59d4u8b6nedbnv5o/tukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/mawijaxekefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210703_205123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed53f9c10f1f3d7c085e64623f5607e/50485829900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/69879479376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607899bd77b0e---nunevofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/47168416855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56614b0a8---50857534626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e547e87f30c6afefdf82b3151cc4dd/74387113328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caabe81a38---1784591085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/93360058806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/madawujibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=autocraft+battery+charger+se-82-6+manualPDF 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_off0000e802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE802 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10014 15592 bytes
SHA-256: 3a7eab46179ef7a2ed006c1f161102d81e08bc92ae3a9c74f4d7efe83c0da998
font_02_sfnt_off00012817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12817 11556 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe1cc22998386e36ba8110de082e1a040eeeae615428eb5ede54d3fe6f8a430