Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 964efadb4416c348…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb14d294c74d821d421d6cf016134323 SHA-1: 44278580f83e024c95a26155e774a6e4cd0b5017 SHA-256: 964efadb4416c3486981ad73665db321a70787c998a89a5c8a9b09abcc87e943
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm and a fake download button, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The document also contains a callback lure, consistent with phishing or tech-support scam patterns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/sakake.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9f4f0617e008524cfe6c52c539238c/bawunedojikikexogiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revenitiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/jilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/debuwitunugegare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/fidosaxumelavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/8478364550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n4g92b9cc61dct53k5ie01tc6/41574398097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073953329e47---13719679773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d59fdb8d7d---47488404650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/dulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/69448509551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210621202956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/65687195320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/diboduvepagezufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/75869233135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoclassicalmansions.com/uplds/file/luwolijeduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/16704271905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/kugevurame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/sitesusexevudikasasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungtransplantopen.com/clients/d/de/de7cc03d42bda6b8b84c8ac9728529bb/File/34824169653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+worksheets+for+grade+4+verbsPDF 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_off0000e004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE004 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 4ffd095427d9b166a056ca14df7825465a63c02808c9f6054055d80741b87ad8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BE 18340 bytes
SHA-256: acd7ced6dbd8208fff21ad3e862f5268bf52c624855582266df9624555dae60b
font_02_sfnt_off0001299c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1