Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 972d64dd6efbc1f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 05:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8a431a214adfab24f936ca43b4bf2cb7 SHA-1: 31e84cdac0b47561b38b65f892cd88fe4d6af68b SHA-256: 972d64dd6efbc1f8330cca3b348a6a4b2ecfbb11f12560c93f4479d7707d691e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'callback lure' heuristic indicates the document may be part of a phishing or tech-support scam. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ap+style+guide+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0f9514ca9---3496388294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/2644348437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8544823136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1srhaomqduqc18fv2fo48n684/tipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/sexozifoxiwukorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cb639d41b---33333779924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uou60shi5j9ro4efh68sfucvrn/17762855232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/gupirowuxofofabozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/58352025252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/fexezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cfb1df1b8---zunuzepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6c05692ef---60154616979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1960.com/clients/1/17/17c242f0968dc4bce059666b43fbd075/File/95933073701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/12010368113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipijagilujaleruzegewule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kleab2phg36hntjbjh9691kskt/gunegogojaxekazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/688c5954dc1aa94b590663fe50e58512/32220535115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/73242937789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8620987048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6uujlmcucp2naof47he715vmu/femejagefexigafukidubigug.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_off00015e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17628 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 97bf615e598f0d56a69972ece86a125e252356d7b4e90a61ac2da0eabaf9e2cd
font_02_sfnt_off0001a47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A47C 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6e52ac40024bebb9dac4fb8a1928faa87363c34967f9a4bd05aeda320fc1f30c