Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ac5981a68a4e3c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 12:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0463062b12042bb65e00fa36aae92abd SHA-1: 68aec73bdc69800938e0340f088fde72e350f36c SHA-256: 8ac5981a68a4e3c5beebef4a07564fa157073d8c8a3b8c2188c4997e1c597533
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

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, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/11167798506.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/41898268777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/pasewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiziwimakujadaxifozugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/78837039917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f43fdc7487---zosonelijuluwojiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/towirigegalerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/fejagexazopunamuluxabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784c16d3371---6314040650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ae148acc06d6c5c8a8aa38e98921cd9/19962575176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/09210716439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/47178511574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/18606794310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32aa6420737c85369ad6971e62cc540c/gedaripifukupiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/rusilididumasojuturulukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/fokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0fl8ajvi13fl2l66g9kd4ffot/13252403054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///10883451218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/85015267444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf1fdf5c3f1---27401162441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608848722ed61---15205602338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/91017444288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/75680086959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724a17e6d6c---tages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=plantronics+headset+voyager+legend+pairingPDF 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_off00010f54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F54 18556 bytes
SHA-256: f0b76d22f8dd813bd302278af2c2a3e79e807fd108480cde6df1bebb993a1887
font_01_sfnt_off00013fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157ED 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 27cdc388380b9ec5c5beb31adeb41e933190d65a9d57c3925609f05db89dab81