Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e2fcbdc163bd1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c2fea0c3cccc5e4110a95a8f65368593 SHA-1: e3f528907b044e730c938f8e1aba4e83468f1443 SHA-256: a3e2fcbdc163bd1d3d42271fb4f872af256b183e41553e88392b30fcb97b8625
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 external resources, some of which point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true origin or host malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious intent to deceive the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://khachsandomino.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/64396123902.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/widasaduvapojowimukeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/kujunabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/xolimuvazugozamugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b562b8c59---84547900982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/najepuvojefojuvisaporezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/divoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58327442816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/tasedewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/77944134022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/jujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d5d611944998f480a81a3db0138d8e6/38235163469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521b239d77225763ec7bf63cb76822ab/fimuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/wujakuvatizugivubilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f200584e70a4ced156c70819d651abb/96827391219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pleasanton.com/wysiwygfiles/file/37379802881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemonsport.hu/upload/file/38183547418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d396655e61773125a1ce7702a4127383/nepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/fivovepizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/46340210093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liepasmuiza.lv/userfiles/library/41710636642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14063766207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poojaindiangrill.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wowumunolodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e66725a057---duvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=funny+gif+merry+christmasPDF 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_off0000eb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 49974e0add274d94139bf7b761b673c778ca2ccd46efeec5f8b2073039b5c739
font_02_sfnt_off0001333c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333C 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 91d07d1abc537b7d6626ddfda7a50d07698cadf9983c47e30f91cb4d19fa0773