Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8865fe6ef40c311b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6aa13a8916d04dbaf11cd7f0d21313b0 SHA-1: 5a0b75433b84a3378bddea31aa8192c67a4760ac SHA-256: 8865fe6ef40c311bf3b0c2bf73e11f97ca74b6765ace6b9b0c298596cbf6b903
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to potentially compromised websites. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/81684979708.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://athaj2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/bavuxifadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/dilosuvesipamowogofuvekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5a1081d84---xagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/46574145397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetour.com/image/upload/File/feruranegirizarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210912071347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/281768863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g33lht57bbr8mmtp8uv7m44fu6/512987079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/54608088605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/21004547603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/24681027144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613484eaded66---dutawixefitezesadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisewatapaxipejatuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea30ced458---27792699620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/bitologari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109131220263550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/tasademevatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bc6a65c538909bd4136ba3ea0fd9592/duvuluwesewoxojojamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/70881844277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/30418250957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613292fa2956d---80437250455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallard.fr/ressource/site-image/files/kaduvevegovufanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/dajinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhagiatxanh.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/43142731447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=badmaash+company+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000d08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD08C 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4d95779c16abdcc4dc34b8c253ff9724535d933464a53098c8b40cb11d2a8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF94 10932 bytes
SHA-256: bf2d2680ed2753f58e96033700db218c1771992d73efc104f85a4a01966ab706
font_02_sfnt_off000118dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1