Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b32edfc6657f1c99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-10-05 00:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b7d1c393b314a600949cc2645d1c87be SHA-1: 61e55832e97b82dfd4ab12cb78f8c028f5eeca38 SHA-256: b32edfc6657f1c99a483fd21f3b53bd25b82374022b1209d577c142c30e9e7a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that often employ JavaScript for obfuscation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://xn--b1agpbmdtf.xn--p1ai/upload/file/83463537799.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/zulifobimosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/72306643332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/48044518560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161508ebd12972---62310454036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/9925349670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1033529973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acdf0e7a0f---xobaxodemizekidajijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/86969929248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///rukelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16157083ca05ac---65758440781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/bomofezuzujagilapuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/mamazokemorunobewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159a84392d80---75577814588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67375226008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7488adace1c9c3bc79474fb32998aa8/lanotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/37777049529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gekiliwurunobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80493133410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615b6e85447b1---varuvizisuxazinazagiluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=either+will+doPDF 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_off0000cfe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE4 21956 bytes
SHA-256: 8763d257d6ea69f7e938795ffc6ae39efebe523c03d33eae3a69b0421787abe5
font_01_sfnt_off00010911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10911 9980 bytes
SHA-256: bb7d6e04eee6452f7027d900ac92f8a7a56bbc699eb5e919342651801d5cbe6e
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1