Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2d3e8ab64d7a9cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: da7ef286d3ba05eccca65e2309647863 SHA-1: d6f94918cbd142ca649fba6edc24c7af42251b5d SHA-256: b2d3e8ab64d7a9cffdd8cb5a2cedd42d05ce2b71ce6c839404d17cc2444a1787
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the true destination or distribute further payloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic suggest an attempt to trick the user into interacting with malicious content or services.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c069a8fcea93e3b4f72f4ed04acc4f14/juses.pdf
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/dowegexuniwuxot.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a130845e999---labaxuxoki.pdf
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/45580411958.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58807b07eafa34c96d12fab62deea493/80577467378.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/72205686382.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7840c71bb3370fb83db68bbbc96269d/82500999252.pdf
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec4e32dbb0f77f0a7b6ef078d01dd50/bixotijegoruparefer.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/15721388591.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a274b2ba933---45411655552.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ljj9ar9k3vp3mhqnfq4pc5ddq/vavonodob.pdf
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/75494874058.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4771dfaffb01c169d8a5dee036e578e4/nikukolejosogel.pdf
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/51899035434.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0fd1d7306---puvugasixifinivewuvil.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d302be006d8---92628958462.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q263qadd9pk1egfibpvjav1tb1/96090054407.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f973fa8189---47355506479.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51b83e53e8d821b62425236abcf97902/tubaranarugemozefavokutuj.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/tosiregebovirobupulufi.pdf
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c5a5b3255ada34a3f5c1927adab349d/86476248062.pdf
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/lokeregugosuvi.pdf
    • https://piuspvc.it/userfiles/file/72079380770.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=reading+passages+for+elementary+students
    • 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_off0000f0b2.bin
3c9b3f2a001238d295acb5190672a7014ff0f94644b621896db9ad27cfbddc86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B2 11100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012271.bin
7fcd8d20dbf19c105fbf44bf61314c5933de1635b276c05bfdc96fa0a284bdd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12271 17384 bytes