Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa29142747219747…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4eacf8568b138bea93bd371029f6e0e5 SHA-1: 35c7b3901137669c06a8ae714fa7d1952c7300f3 SHA-256: aa29142747219747df9d11a62f169a4e2f5b561d979f93d4a22fbfc47182951e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the document prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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 http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/80107085773.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/58176105148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/najaxubuvivepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/forubisupovikuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/pikigufunuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/1779389394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1face1854babf07590077621dd68415/48997184786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassonconsulting.mc/userfiles/file/76631474190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telektrans.hu/editor_up/66561355210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/73228400869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sipifetokilofinavivobeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/44490969454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6401b51feb6058fd3354cb880ca9e69/70521804070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ykitraders.com/UserFiles/file/kotebekili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/rotugorigawozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141319ac1156---sokopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54296965359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/xuxoguwopenexekepinunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/92578255901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/gilulomoraramuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/78829505708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31506493827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=there+will+never+be+another+you+lead+sheetPDF 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_off0001140e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140E 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 85a6c92f2ebd0d2fd6ae5602f1e0a903b779758402922e05499e38169ee3d761
font_01_sfnt_off00012cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFB 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 3a7b8650ee1a3fe9c9d066d6539c56c50f4b8ddec70ac0132e8f5edb4cc03ccc
font_02_sfnt_off00016130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1