Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b7254342f4f13de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:10:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e399e8e6366a7b665b10e1b97e7625b8 SHA-1: 8c062a35ddd2a270d4eb8b45c02cd38755837a94 SHA-256: 9b7254342f4f13de48cdb232df7b92006f74f20162270c227173667d1fc0a848
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The presence of a callback lure heuristic indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext, although no specific instructions were found in the document body.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j33g5htp6tf4j2hk4n27tkh56/88328476969.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/peboxotuzopagosasavumajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/43636164856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e302ad0dd3421c5ad9e6b39ebea506c/gulomejofedaxurivavudewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03dcd30a59cec63bf4e10e4aea55aa50/70425471153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7f5db588c---fugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e896de397e89d9fb558b01ad74bc5913/vorejakegusaxupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b484faf4a0e6684a156c93d600d7614b/vamitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibakozidovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30ab495cf8---tuzavetabegepifutoroxorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58344933357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926c18ab3d6---kapemefezegoxizubujeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thallo-food.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13519389321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061c92ea43b---rirutadewafupogojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f05b8e6922---360740337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/siponamagamive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/mokevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79888340863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73719575904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60fe600c4c758ee83065571dbd38a71c/222815302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/zebovuzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/logodopujibawopilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a00nhdh92lh10tddpmuepoimh/87371309472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/4332044497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sherlock+holmes+stories+in+malayalam+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f12a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12A 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 120dabf041eb81523fddff37f5dad13eff19080cce724c04bd540cd01299a8b1
font_02_sfnt_off00012095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12095 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 4781b4386931d18e56750fb2c27bf097dd872d332fd051581739366f55bc1a63