Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9913a5e73e8b44db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 16:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c5fbbde54aac72991968193f7d1b41be SHA-1: ee15774339538c86e4374b3380723aaa4a061c86 SHA-256: 9913a5e73e8b44db846964f5ff3445f51098af1c08e33d80024f1393e20f02a1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' specifically indicates the document's intent to trick users into calling a phone number under the guise of a billing, refund, or security issue. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cache+data+android
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40625528688.pdf
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70943134111.pdf
    • https://labelmarket.pl/data/file/vurojiwoviral.pdf
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/temoxakosinakususajunig.pdf
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/55611532977.pdf
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/fuzozavurasimajagevefiwol.pdf
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/16632040341.pdf
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/luvesexugipazaxabixurofer.pdf
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/25138632702.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140251598693---22780154693.pdf
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/27298241343.pdf
    • http://seteo-dechets.com/images/file/79110224155.pdf
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/newukenori.pdf
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/tofuxesezosebowa.pdf
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210903095049.pdf
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/91523132008.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e85a3d2bd7---joxukaguragixazofizux.pdf
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/41528853346.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ddeaee191---7308923444.pdf
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/59635477294.pdf
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/bemalovofalazafobewuk.pdf
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77727403548.pdf
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/91207193547.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d17b6d62e5---64287549468.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c99b89a68cfd89bd52eb5770e6afe0/femosulodakutunupe.pdf
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/41739475725.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b62a.bin
aed3ee3fcbcb3adf1a262a076e15ac98f8d184d25e85b8975d15b117d33766e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB62A 10284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd39.bin
d1e2cda234c85be42c6b3e6572fde2dbf34a70879293ec71c57fc989c4fadd1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD39 19200 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fff6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF6 16792 bytes