Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 893a2aa09543d5ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b8b14fd8fbfa8ce9b27eab4ec2a0e32b SHA-1: b2edf77d4e3f6d74ffc0472e4a69d88be628b026 SHA-256: 893a2aa09543d5ff17d44534d34a2d9deed8cfb14ec127dda0f980e7867895ea
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, further supported by the ML classifier and ClamAV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc2c0a760d---gudisuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d278df00e3---2530417346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graficaeformazione.it/userfiles/file/sugugigebesavawimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.eemedia/contents/file/94901377979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/vebikaxusexaxigawofebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/pajaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/170962798760914d3a1389e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9109b15996---69565049571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/4749095691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/woratinafatuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609614d1ccfb8---67025598789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/lujejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/324965ee9fdddd18b9ca3a08f7c08370/papepepixofobiviwaneribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd439f4b11a---fasexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ed3ea0ae7---tagexorazoxelenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca20c84718---piwotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/18335083053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/dativimelunuwipajiniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbe4e9ec505---5018361317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/nelekomodifojalubarodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089013a9632c---31503180233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+listening+recent+actual+test+vol+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD39 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 09562ca2d5000ae2f2345c4ffb282664df80e6add20478162cc85c395b82892d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28D 27740 bytes
SHA-256: 8b89133ddd76734c9be43051a899bb0419a44cff122314be1a893992e55df3b4
font_02_sfnt_off00011b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B00 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 088d7adb36b23c2fd912c7ec17f1497d301c717699942fd3c8e42ac2293b6b23
font_03_sfnt_off0001339a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1