Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0f388b2fd1a7315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c98e329e210a98bded808965ae41047f SHA-1: cdf8e334919c2c3955f7f0943c3db5cc44d29de9 SHA-256: b0f388b2fd1a731539071d8d2ffc5dfe1946ef0ada0bf80e8314295b08b4f8c0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests the document is designed to trick the user into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, points to a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+very+hungry+caterpillar+french+pdf
    • http://tid.vn/upload/files/2916417211.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34080852684057c3120885ddbacaccdc/9300600156.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b22ed8ba112---19505859082.pdf
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/28727684387.pdf
    • http://shs67classreunion.com/clients/b/bf/bf9552935413f2527bbee995f2dfc9b5/File/66230622907.pdf
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/pavegidat.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c6da036c7---10703912526.pdf
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/37344674477.pdf
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/63834713713.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h82eeovlpjg8bm2homottqq251/nawubibazojipitugiga.pdf
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenifugudobil.pdf
    • http://marjoleintje.nl/include/userfiles/witixun.pdf
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/93320649012.pdf
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45083529097.pdf
    • http://cristalensi.com/public/File/71407353640.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/99669394251.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/19947923762.pdf
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/gazidareboxedumumaxipuna.pdf
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/60105427227.pdf
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/13208495064.pdf
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/puniti.pdf
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d9ce27fed681e012a34fed2655729e/22077597845.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a40cf2bcb---nonajogif.pdf
    • 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_off0000c189.bin
d8fa806726827b3f390a46b3e602fcb3db76ce84e6ab1c57fd697ff0f4b4ccaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC189 16560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec64.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC64 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001047b.bin
48ff79d7644b41846afcbfd0d06bddc31eba76c3d390fc425354dcdca94727c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047B 10852 bytes