Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b00638e02d2a5e09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a9431463d6545a814c53f41243995b92 SHA-1: e955103b61e9299346c033d2416c84543c874fa4 SHA-256: b00638e02d2a5e0948380d2f28b7c3c1f5bfee266be826cd06fef480c69936a9
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple embedded URLs, some of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing distribution mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains indicators of social engineering lures, specifically prompting the user to install a browser extension/update or to call a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+non+root+ad+blocker+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6993418841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/gemizosazabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109040430442129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/24885000296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.com/userfiles/file/52165366731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/61577111658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/golulowolomiraraxinezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/76085039727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haihengpharm.com/upload/files/44747724462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354efbbb013---rosisapifilijokulowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bb360d353---35565139319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/lufifavusolejemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331b1b8e4aa---vadugulolelawilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/pajijunuguxubivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/20650453608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonawusoxujivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/mutitejozukidoduwutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcsiva.com/files/userfiles/file/zufomarijanunesova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/kalawemozonasifudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/wagoparekiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99351426997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/45855219377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/gilubibasakudowokawib.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_off0000d1f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F9 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 82f75d9f784b7226b043388fdff33bf0b1bf237ef296dcaf5052471ffb692ade
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD5 17360 bytes
SHA-256: fb1d77af2fe0bd5b8d88efeee8764c37dd1043162057c552d9cc8256677ba02a
font_02_sfnt_off0001185c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1