Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a622dc2638a37f03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-08-28 04:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d8e5cc4ce463e27ae0c0a5074e67eafd SHA-1: a11cdbe75c38448f57f2bd649707a95ca32e51bb SHA-256: a622dc2638a37f034b5120bbfd4d5a6dcacc1b5f9aae21cf9c1db66285ef19f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context, indicating the links are likely intended to lead users to malicious sites. ClamAV also detected this as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/75436209253.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///rofijujigasefuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dd7caf1e3---jamudovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/61193615877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344uclh8dcstisqiuhteq26g5s/89848107302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/fefazogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/letomulezojulozowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/viloxubemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202108201751272970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc46b5d1a9dd221167f0eca88af50df/lojokoxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607858bc6758e---malazirapokulabelekisabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130016d3efbbdc8079672c3452b8e395/83657868669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/62462504447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f0bf5b0cc---kasutevezerotibobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c551bc8b2829020579d5cc8cdc24308/lewugibebenexuwupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceac6942e75---fozofogajoziban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/bewojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/vawabowalevake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8d0ba917a---kesedisividowidowurutepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b96f8cad4---9253416148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai76cstbqa3cfmmbbdj0hib8hn/lazinenejaxomililojevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/givuwevasexukaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1626b4f2b47b5cf7d72775c499b852c9/wanafawowipogisenutoxomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=subatomic+particle+with+no+electrical+chargePDF 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_off0000c144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC144 16328 bytes
SHA-256: c0e8d357ccaac178559916f8d78bbed124bd65f03cbf905c02a95378a701d08e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB05 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 2d5b62811c3d8e011ab9c338921bf20d5c83073961b1c70eee9c3485006c3b0e
font_02_sfnt_off0001046e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1