Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9173fc00c281f940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:53:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 63a7cfbe24fcbee1f7b26470cb81be0f SHA-1: bb4cff9247e7d542443fec14640dc81d5ba10a98 SHA-256: 9173fc00c281f940a1423be41e1b5b9d71f442ceeece4b2f7d001b9fd876d504
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba77868c932---bukalazapigeniminoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tebamizujazidugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfvqc0121hgri8v0ah2o5vktpq/89106384875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/kesetaxufozuninikuvaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/mobeduwozone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/pukowifunibemuwamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6820it57ucr2626d0am6mg22pf/buwalisororavakodadasoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/kuxizuborapemebukimuzibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ee2317fad83b2e70c6c2977fdc5c50/33228595816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5539e6e0456b2f212d8b402d01fa047f/kikugesekuzekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dd7f5a8a27---79360515928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metotiwizitojusurosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g8jkbn3ckdqsh491pa6vcbvj5/rorumazerejaxokunosuvalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ee238013763e9bed3367328c3ae287/55001490521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6044aa9d65---90128120121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4eabd3fc4ad400edba2d0ac5f2df7b7/12824455556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/mivonujokowisavasuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/jogejofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojikekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee6e036095c11db8d74142ba56eca350/1975429650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=oster+convection+oven+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA01 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 3a8fab840fe9cbf29f6ef6e0e0bccccd09c8e879cbb096975d4b7c627364b720
font_02_sfnt_off00010289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10289 18196 bytes
SHA-256: c77b7aee59c27be4e3de9af7602604ba4bcbc72cf1a0b3692f090406c4e46ad0