Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97b5546a5d7a0a8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7e1361fcd2ba1b1d7924c1763da3b99c SHA-1: 2c98aa7b9da253430ae2dd8eb9f8224222f0d38f SHA-256: 97b5546a5d7a0a8ff70fcb3c07c70dd4fd52dabe7ea8f5aed5fd4fd6055015ec
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document may be designed to trick users into calling a phone number for fraudulent purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or scamming operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://rajaunited.com/contents//files/5214002698.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161113c1be87c1---rozojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fa7e3313f---dikonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/54824684499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turystyka.powiatlubartowski.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/86844776312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/1185508017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608580ff7099a---xejiwawefibodigabebikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1858262522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31b900e250---63368250606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4em5f9oljnikrsanvvhcbeielm/japirozepifopopogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/31444833604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/monobilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/22213431746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/73273670410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloshoppingnepal.com/userfiles/file/40710792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17a28757195720c0dc19c229167758b4/remugegokatilapevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa02180a98bda783721d97995e87941/37673885197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/bibasariradotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/xanukegoxewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dfbfa5d8e---defutafezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/mupekevoganapugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b462737c2da---38984330200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a4289a5e4---2946634433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/vekudiluzixuwovino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/28575167380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608855fe1dc52---selawubizinosunowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=grade+3+maths+test+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000e5f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE08 10660 bytes
SHA-256: fd173263fc0e76db5f5972e672fffea6bf3c8b44626f68b50090f607ef3c64d1
font_02_sfnt_off000116a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A1 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8239de85e373a659ac3e4b98f55a9b6600acc1f58d4b2b14ed39ce5e5a5049