Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c9b8cbdfbcb137d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 57f0fb04be2967fe1cce82f4e315e2e0 SHA-1: 2b098944775f4191a5b48508f672f29287a59bf9 SHA-256: 9c9b8cbdfbcb137d8a8a3d0362aa61cc76a2cc1b9516c718085ccd59f1ca8398
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, which likely serve as download locations for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b793f2d95fc---81291218009.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/31879824004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/64017000958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostessima.pl/userfiles/file/43478606890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd0986370203b5e52397b2e383d3843/mewexivapavasalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ba15ad57e---31848037835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82227ca81dbe8ae0701923fea1bbf90/88863623771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urotunisia.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/gujetugobuzujisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a915b0fa2a894f586f9d7f4411ec01bb/62045132660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/daruxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/divitanovamotituremip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb97592fe2ed411a869d3a0fc7f8b34d/nobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abab77d0872---36259707674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/budifelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofojurafoxediku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/32787463287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/rowibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9acacf447409a29ecceb2fe54b0e4e5/rakumesezijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad176fdcc48---lewotawokatolokemulisariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8f8e53ad4c---fagukexaxoxezinebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0dff40de37abd97751209d1430b2b7/zinimijanebozujulojori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/sezidubogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchs1969.com/clients/867877/File/13412781928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+tourism+in+tanzania+pdfPDF 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_off0001208d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208D 10848 bytes
SHA-256: ac0cd34f8b68ea2231c76b71149de5a822335345e7bf4d94a8fbd3956e12993b
font_01_sfnt_off00013999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13999 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000151ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151AB 17732 bytes
SHA-256: c7a677178966d3d2bb78c844e842aba52f5d50cee01d9e6ab83157399e5282c0