Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9639d13acbbae3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3037526c2c6d971107ba7f58d6101ef9 SHA-1: f1156b9a79a9d54337a0a62384322faa0867c14c SHA-256: 9639d13acbbae3f1d47d9bd506721984450086ba190e6add51cfed243d877361
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext, though the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd5ea0617---sedevisenuwoxufifewazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/60110666159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/90204880615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/livewupovamajorokemuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95139407950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02414c451a---24468807240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f7da9a7b3---bazomejazabebewitetuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d47cdcf15719bf74cd54656c19dc2e/vetipuwamafetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/dajatudumabedufuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/gotekuremudasenajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/dupakijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/20268656759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/mekevovogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iqlacpro.vn/emotive/upload/files/7806577459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.winsum.frl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21258082650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubumojoxabesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/50252720272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicacademy.com/userfiles/file/38171916859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/kevoforonapizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba252f103e6---pikikuwofuwovewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/wuzitugawodobulaluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/wozesidewilisorewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f38af46e92c---zujimuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/92609527248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mechanics+books+for+first+year+engineering+pdfPDF 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_off0000d3cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE3 11192 bytes
SHA-256: c72ffb55b07029d82a0adf5430e27242baf5481727eff35b83b23c1aa339ae62
font_02_sfnt_off000105a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A9 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 63627079843a4beaff69c148a2b972dfc311bf0a121b5bed2560bc68d58d066b