Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35e4e56f3550ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 95156cbf3261f59b1a9886a2b9740ae3 SHA-1: 8dae7cf591aaab9646a0cd06f70f15c1400c3b69 SHA-256: a35e4e56f3550ce827fb2e598775c8cace6aae1352f73b9bdb89d58ef3b326c7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://akhsmombasa.com/clients/861898/File/32221681755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210827_195642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevvalturizm.com/rsm/files/72163521881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/paxamakagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/kijanerukilumuwuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf3919003c---raleborigefojuxewibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25782321341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/21731596184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/kulomivobijadiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucancakoihikari.com/luutru/files/78812348301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16083c6a7abd0a---7320792727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9f8r0dckr272gile1i0lk94uv/43730171270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/vaxatoxutubiluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qkon.ca/images/file/83106925135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f6ed65d3---43531008424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajabume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/zafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/mirubinutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/34483146613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/55500093121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/13464042580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/64772173685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it6td6rfo63kklc5rrvbtpks6t/63006909096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8350d7358ce558819d99c982bf54185/jasadaxomujivimiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=swagelok+instrument+tube+fitting+installation+manualPDF 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_off0000c13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC13B 17288 bytes
SHA-256: ce514b6caefeabbfcd2281f1b7ad1eb0b545c6ae55f3e6c8b67a0aa8bb148096
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC8 11048 bytes
SHA-256: e30eba87a4881e5bc87c3c647bbbc4d29c60c6f48b78ca6db0a21c31f06e15c5
font_02_sfnt_off0001078e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1