Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92981ae95ced31f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 408df64ffe7fcacc379e7595de689421 SHA-1: abe332af0ab534e309fd0e5e58ccb4a5bd30e6a1 SHA-256: 92981ae95ced31f44c2ee3f897285bf2344752d6febcf4accbaad2831325bc05
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it acts as a lure, prompting the user to install a browser extension/update or to call a phone number, consistent with tech-support scams or callback phishing. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting it may be part of a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/bipenigodukog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/bofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978703a4d7b0f117ecfbea5ff2d66e01/defutenelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilatesmystyle.com/userfiles/files/27518374932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/kowilojarajimenawawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/36907199749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99452765411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesofematonapalenamogeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614691ff6e21e---pamubopigapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/13583378927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/vifoxanumizutisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/66305970150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/86376371289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotacri.com/userfiles/files/witive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/jigokuritapesopifalovive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/dobevikikeluseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/nudoxomure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/zuvetadomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412f847268c---53613788558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613364b88a304---dinozujeraxitulesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/sexemigaminamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/pibidavifelepixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/292836881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korifukimonijewoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/27288332267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=update+android+version+manuallyPDF 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_off0000dd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59A 19568 bytes
SHA-256: a54430197fd1bdb4ba6d9edb519c74155b30df0d4a32358f21c73f547ab4b94d
font_02_sfnt_off000127ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CA 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 7e564b9f51b6c171a38908f64ce4ac679d8010c0bc0cdc341d00831746e08682