Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b287ba305f329c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 74e7ba1360a93e743822e94aa82d7005 SHA-1: a964c1220ebe2436e997fbedda036eca1373aa3f SHA-256: b287ba305f329c11ddb217af95dae13fb75fa4e141f345ad9a2904c2e139cf1b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for downloading files, consistent with phishing or scam attempts. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing pretext further supports this. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, though no specific family could be identified.

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajubumukon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/24223473160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/45042839329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613219642d6db---tagavutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techinnsrl.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/42330898296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210906092746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/xotusewakolonenopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/71663811395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vongtaygiay.net/media/ftp/file/6629310213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/dibirubebemidevuramuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/vogokapasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/tavofipizosogamilida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/pisubudofexufagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/7349_20210905111524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ebae4bc54---11803972004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmmjsut4qlrtftt91qq0s4otsl/98687458150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/nupaxibitolojugidilidufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/8957247229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/11728619201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43429472129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/kogaxefevuwotosifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/kivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/19692748426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensitiva.fi/UserFiles/File/1573563618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=best+way+to+send+files+from+android+to+iphonePDF 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_off0000c984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE196 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 14d3924146a4eab7b5f1b3327fb891d021533074fc097b1033ac80fdb32f8e86
font_02_sfnt_off00010c56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C56 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 0e29377b1c66d36fce0467198e9b02dfa17d1b9dd75e761f0a7f99696836e915