Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 966e71a144264089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dc8cd5f7b97c5d3ca9389689f286a04e SHA-1: 39a8a7843567649b5c01226cbb197080cd66aaf1 SHA-256: 966e71a14426408939615bb053484a2913bbb34bfcbe75c5b5a0a3a1b3ec100a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or link-farming attack pattern. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also be designed to trick users into calling fraudulent support numbers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hp+android+5+inc PDF link annotation
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94017317757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210921015439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giduxulevuxigaminuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/11324723735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933b25d917e5b70dbf81426b662c9f89/xivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/jedopilineboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74087845662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/91100375568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f010e78647af88aac6c3427085b946a/laseparuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/71692615278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/pawesonipupezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109221411001404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/69569298250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631058401_bdb31282c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurolmumcu.com/userfiles/file/39686640996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/vefimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/36117418246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/38395875713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/tewunexogapemuxetotilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gusipuluwumowatefununitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaestehaus-am-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/zawalaxukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b48f93a8e0---59464089707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/49132914249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/ludaroges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/ligogatafasitekajus.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_off0000b730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB730 19476 bytes
SHA-256: 274df4303b2a95aa5ac2a3d785cccfc2670f2e83f482bead22b6f72865b30f6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0A 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 543b78ff8e8e2a33693748a509bc3da5d26716a1874e4ea3e79930a201265fb4
font_02_sfnt_off000100dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1