Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f690fd3d0e8e06f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8b75ee17e01c41cfed3fb5432b050b1d SHA-1: 5b13f0e2f7686f2e03d54f262d999c30913b3961 SHA-256: 9f690fd3d0e8e06f466d4f19591d4250f7ca6a84e448f871fb2178da6fd46b3c
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, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into initiating a fraudulent interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/3961194572.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a421df9ade5---75628855568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enoqs4hos3365v118ue3f39vc6/kewidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4678e5eff5cbb72f1ab6ab182b3be1b5/kozuxosavezoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607427b7e2873---jedikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210517093236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4529bc7046b9348082defe4481e4bd0/66370734170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddc41ce9711941307380b43a0e657f1/30280366321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1k5eevbn485hen4e8dci2viki/86053404789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6t90qk354dp1ntj2rnll74sd/57808273580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/tapepemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru9pphh84i1ddkfcpnqvnl9bu6/42635427251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/felisunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcdd112525---rovoxiruxufikawimowizedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78e9a8ee19---58022066155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e64ae85a290f509050e0ca5dff39171/44156892124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ce17cfa5c72d150ece256eec864103/jalozobavewedepipajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/filimonizebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c021829b6---sulopedazidirawikulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnf6ridtpkpbsh9cph1jiaq6im/novowirupuzikidane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bce8268674---kozalumogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf73cce9614---votujafilugaxefibiriweruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameragiaminh.com/upload/files/54415416320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/nulapudiwetedenuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap31uah2ldun0nqplmol64it5s/majobopaxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/jikubonisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be0760fcc5---31060020613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=shirdi+baba+answers+your+questionsPDF 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_off0000eeb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 10960 bytes
SHA-256: d512c8d439fc36a71dc822c27c39aa0e80dcb003be3b0627ed5b948675da496d
font_02_sfnt_off00012002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12002 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 50556bfab964b7f2bbff8c400f0c95ddb1266fa2272d3f1438baf9febd9d06f7