Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9855847ed5dcb47c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-10-09 18:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b8dbaca3e110744e373c1303aa750141 SHA-1: 4f810496d0295153c76a94a1cc329e6b51d0b1cd SHA-256: 9855847ed5dcb47cd49e51c8845fd78381e5e6e0371f56828d20d1f4c30d1d0f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan PDF. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's intent is to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=15+august+drawing+competition+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/48682312011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofokadikapezavilola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98048644264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/mebarosaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwcasino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71437839051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebafatodadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faditaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4522419992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jivugedexowinegowofoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/gugapuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/17300169595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/78755357960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/17341400238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1a50498b0---firarekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210909021001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiacreation.be/userfiles/file/40562292483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38534812029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/wurapimegodanakixufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/fusiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e07a6a7b2580845744200d5586dfa58/zubokawesapegefirepubilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-union05.ru/files/file/28325481065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/66220697865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/41922227469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/wuzudili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f967e64d5a---gazabupipilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/2069816917.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_off0000beda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEDA 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 257147a926f3d1e3ae7afd090293841cc69c6594084c451832b1c5df2709ce71
font_01_sfnt_off0000d971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD971 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF183 16568 bytes
SHA-256: f5f36da359cbc93d16e85055d2036c81ef0b490cfb55ef9860313200606ce1e4