Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b0dd2d03ae0c806…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f0961dbd3bbd784ef9cebce2e5090f41 SHA-1: c6bdf8a3803b761f9b0f78f3921a8e6d2cd080ac SHA-256: 9b0dd2d03ae0c8062d988458a3fe1720ed519633dd224b5ba703479e8e73acc1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/93253489055.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/11312532625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147aba0567eb---turepadufubuganebikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/xujerenilebugatatabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a7c263576---bosenesuvovoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368fd7e946b---27869417099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/47711439575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/40919552071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/nijijufufusasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/dadizinakojipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383a7cd2268---10014295615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodobashi-church.com/53165766642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/wirogukazetikudorodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsmr.us/userfiles/file/14982699015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/72476334549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/3580508988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613129d8737aa---25373015871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613635aa57dcc---42028732694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurukripapublicschool.org/userfiles/file/numorawuparamifevopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/61485518144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/63587870318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/gexevevewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/pasokerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/1254715671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+play+pc+minecraft+with+mobilePDF 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_off0000c4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4F2 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 004ffc65c986520eaafd96b20fb40da293f36f7bfa96057d0230ad9bfcbb6d32
font_01_sfnt_off0000de50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE50 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 48d8565d2048edecd8b34ee58dbb947086e65a2ffa0d13d97999e0665a5d794c
font_02_sfnt_off00010b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1