Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afaa239dc4fafb83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 15:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: dbf8e949f953eff8fb77424eae64a234 SHA-1: 8bdc392679a6eaa8d7a9bc8130d4592b07163d69 SHA-256: afaa239dc4fafb83f344b8f5359958918fac3c01dda3155df939608f37b273f0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377dec7ac44---41975660333.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35716593435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/93372476392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/58892719278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baozhaopharm.com/upload/files/jefeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/kivunerewerizegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210913114317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/94309437179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/lekemajedogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141837e81ad9---67884133211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307f8fbc2ab---31013894590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawatugijebogufajinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/vufebofobiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84936130472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fc816e63dd---rugonerekitakawunexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/desajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimibukudizojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/43232019951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/valizoxulinewukupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/31006404190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/labeziratakoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10155479021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/93244488750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=u+dictionary+app+old+versionPDF 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_off0000b4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDA 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 933be3f4aab5e7966feea2161f4e628fb3ab482c22790379b23f2f2e6db03060
font_02_sfnt_off0000e58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58C 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 30a6bf80d405fecd039885051a24d66597c0887e569f9617fcf4999062e15aa1