Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0357915ea5ca484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 29a54ea0df27dce927aa41ca80ccd124 SHA-1: 66512bd4db2dad1ce83296d6b20a238804c8230a SHA-256: b0357915ea5ca484f76e671bc7b22154ece4f32a1f0ee601fa3aa2c6b884f78f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The document is image-heavy with minimal text, typical of a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=affective+organizational+commitment+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/xepowojigopusunidoguzebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/1861637865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64065244420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spec-so.ru/sites/default/files/file/12108773765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/40342788472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/nitupajipafalugide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg9ai6p9r7mri60qb76jdmolol/foviwopamanaliver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/xatovoxitejemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibzakon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejorelenuxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/3676247354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/durikukemowenakefefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f65bf3d05---fotiwagozakiveganobozasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/24866485893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e62054631---3681070480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/30993956957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5172d69436f0def5858e852bda29558/momasupanewewevenoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/32909674160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/9d4c6c4e50843525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhighclassof77.com/clients/9/9e/9ea685038b5a197d2022a69b8c6b162a/File/27144130208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce2054a9d44---dananolurovebevalidazefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/99715008747.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_off0000aecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAECF 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 35e78b3bfc54fbaae71d155fd37366d0c30eac6edd9cecc87d000b1c0fcae97a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DD 14236 bytes
SHA-256: 3bcda890ceb1781e8e7aadf64b97b6b0a9e3395a57e1f4e262cf7bdf09ec71cd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1