Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af71f289caed00ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:12:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 585a2f99d8336b4ea4c5ff9b60588b9b SHA-1: 0561fb75e1aebde21e53ae69d2b09b978bd09d59 SHA-256: af71f289caed00ea28ed234702fe61e99aea3c55d38ff6dfec05cc41db033a8b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites, masquerading as a free PDF editor download. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+pdf+editor+download+android PDF link annotation
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d8de99310---14730777042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dec50f4daa74c7b9ab98ec76ba2a8d4/rutunedivowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/jiwevavegafejijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805fd28e122---44792981796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meborozutuxilituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076600364ce1---nokifolapafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28e303e6bd---29372749551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/78064289381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c639b299da9---17492422579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfebfb0a55---54051718251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747d501791c---majukonokomotalunerezuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/92597169775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf841da7e54---saruruted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luboxilizibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a00ce96f73678eaab154b2f4dc4304/wozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/nijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/lubureno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9b7cd3379---88712493990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dbd1c6567---vanafofumixevulowaralej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/80542009383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/nekizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/54429815036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/21836602365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/42707981086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BC 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 3deaca00d34f745fa119d05c02e5df097ff9b084b2a6d0a1d41b8120bd09cefb
font_02_sfnt_off00011954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11954 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 61f15232f52c2e2d08e87f3cae9fbf04dc78d6876bee504d83fefce5599c8f09