Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93eead667e28d656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 17:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b7522a9ce6230c799ebe485428ed0b59 SHA-1: 1db3fbc0798b2e081f482ee1de11575c3594d3cf SHA-256: 93eead667e28d6569741f917fcb7c92da6e3bda778f3583f2275f3fe3d6d5eb9
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of invoice and callback lures suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to trick users into clicking embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+paediatric+life+support+malaysia+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c69508b2c---96003585821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767eb862890---50004315680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/25391279545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/95656707671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/bozaxenafowekevamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6f3c58aaf---vigopibara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/63793019916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nlpnb9hmerjtlbdsurejrlno8/17171799783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5fqr7nqskte44oqtf08f7l6fk/89475333213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teckim.it/themes/userfiles//files/18447787429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/denejijaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10096766dff552ab8d42c47922ffb85d/32301642998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/pelevoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080afc0a55c1---fijiwutukajinekadodadefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e01a6b1047---tedivowikudekatixowowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/59061508681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/11577177286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/rusejuzezolujusazunopuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073937ac1c98---48944269610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acdf7a7c27---61200065282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/64880498751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/pajozejivowego.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_off0000f0d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D7 17704 bytes
SHA-256: b334f9c77a980745d35d03ce723a0a1e1ae51bca4f28be4889d2f4cf1c86b207
font_01_sfnt_off00011f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A9 11044 bytes
SHA-256: d954514492aaa4eca116e8df884fd328a64857b2f44ac10a63f6bc6a4d3d4a1d