Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96daa57b1fe4bbfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8e4a4ef6cd4305b3e188a28a4cf0c6af SHA-1: 65ac64b7852be91aa6b6d9ab0c8c20b70d7f21b7 SHA-256: 96daa57b1fe4bbfd9abf2595f197865db9078c8884a8d2bed8c953f89ebe2ac5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it is a PDF link farm potentially hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a callback phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, limiting the ability to determine specific execution chains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/lusexedurawawozebenidu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/dalinesovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/71336915498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttfi.org/app/webroot/userfiles/file/visubowumewomexarikuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/98224710613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c50616bb8---61108922772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/17043980623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/rosamilojilaxasikemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/61352874506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsqnchem.com/upload/files/91380618502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ded8364527---76348730706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/xakemiranodotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/firajiginijinilejuzako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/23583701138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wumitidevuvajuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/76255428865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/49465405119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/85202470146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/dasalivonizurefudomugonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8c82ba0c3---82257807796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/37900114314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/vawazukusotowixerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/2548587045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/85742121417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/95918611678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=is+internal+storage+the+sim+cardPDF 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_off0000e306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE306 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1D 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 75e8a3c3e8ff542ef4a522813c0718c92335830c685deff198b43ab4a1a8f313
font_02_sfnt_off00011377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11377 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 22cfe39d4a594fde0ed3481986da88c79483f0e6956546bda48fa216c4acb485