Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa4cc25214fa69e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 94d87e98f3ef8713fd593932d05c806a SHA-1: d588ab8d19754abff5a2ae5d973b1e93300d1918 SHA-256: aa4cc25214fa69e7a6da378f7b1b138216b419a43e159895eadf68ccdcc4ccd3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. It contains numerous links to disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to deceive users into contacting fraudulent support or service providers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://itaxabc.com/userfiles/file/20210913062740_1592786778.pdf
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45216281799.pdf
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozanufifuzobib.pdf
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210906_034439.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d181fa68ab---tijip.pdf
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/nakusunomilijez.pdf
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/bekasitu.pdf
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/dusekitemovuvegiwikuxafu.pdf
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/11105895225.pdf
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/39089751826.pdf
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/27775022817.pdf
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/jibafijutaritobag.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8ab3b7d2b---69704418354.pdf
    • http://bubb.cn/up_file/file/69815805524.pdf
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/verufelanoxawakob.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613585269c08b---83950719531.pdf
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/55919654694.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee0fede2cbcf9428169dac3646a62cc/61206357513.pdf
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/74288872866.pdf
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/43144221453.pdf
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/23549429554.pdf
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/79546688547.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sites+like+yify+movies
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e04a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f861.bin
b3450d96147b523e1626e1d989dff475cde276184aebece4a82579866ad0f23d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF861 10356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fcb.bin
ccd6883f4ca22171ce1bbf80979c61f77e0b548df3f96fef0c8fcf34c168de57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCB 17660 bytes