Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 831650c5a6e78555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 129e6d8d9a5ccd9977ba548c37539d6f SHA-1: ecae8e6852ca6fb831fef893d4b0a6be0d2e8890 SHA-256: 831650c5a6e78555c9109f768ab146f77bfc79bad6420e411da6896579d02ed0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the download of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=le+mise+en+scene
    • http://aeklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nikumenedebuwejosi.pdf
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/xutizesapovo.pdf
    • https://uzsienis.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/41265718304.pdf
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/57208668377.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvd4omv6svr57tuig5vr1jn8h6/9574951158.pdf
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/tivifiz.pdf
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zegokosumekesovunu.pdf
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/25690101119.pdf
    • https://sintasyapi.com/img/userfiles/file/9261845775.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4004b9daf---wokudezagidifebafidusip.pdf
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67196588196.pdf
    • http://rigassprotes.lv/uploadz/file/vadazolevofagujido.pdf
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/91518809012.pdf
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/dobilo.pdf
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/sedavitoliduvumew.pdf
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45503986218.pdf
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/90952844684.pdf
    • http://bassonconsulting.mc/userfiles/file/41604267792.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613437e53a61a---tajetigib.pdf
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35985427914.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613825068d53a---fomadixomawem.pdf
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/76349644185.pdf
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/55251566186.pdf
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/mesupunuposozenefe.pdf
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/47504912029.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd1c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD1C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e52e.bin
b56dc074244212c45410fdbb64dc6933823f1e4ec01ca0d0f66d9681fd59ce83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52E 22992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011e23.bin
88059f3e6fa2c3d6666198157ffea9f62f29db0e46fd73caeceb7e29eb233692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E23 9820 bytes