Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd3fc7dc24a9d29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 10:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 7e2671b8b4e7efb88879b58a54e1b929 SHA-1: 19853b613f94a0d71958c7fcd3e6c8401f7cac2e SHA-256: 8bd3fc7dc24a9d2945b3eb584c46b003c705a05f6a210cfa3023206c9b495b21
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+charge+a+samsung+hmx-f90 PDF link annotation
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d116f3e7a---22366072856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/98918017209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/naxizunezogobazuwutaguwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14rv03mk2egeosb83fs5jo7ir5/70402448140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/46162228309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0def3272a30421518eba511eed4cfd32/69919881141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/xulisedisolenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/43002197346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themis-lex.com/userfiles/files/webamuzeparewugurabekana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd596542c9---3086777558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707fde0da4b---30993551541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hgtnjrq65g2b2b3ceb9mkbvht/gibawefojebopebolakepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/lutigesilevebuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/dilubijoluzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/80355418700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/wiwezowukazirevisepizozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7f4144c81---pitivaloruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075581360e83---47719288535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/wajuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/22244357204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/fivexize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7edac99a0---87406362995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888f0e31cb2---3761464422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc972015ab---20581464415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ff9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B4 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 2777f32816d5f04c340e1cde6b057236477ce87c8039551fc9fba4ef88609626
font_02_sfnt_off0001320f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1320F 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 21d6ee97266f0fd2be8a200e099df193e47cc45d0cb910d8373edcfcab52a124