Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b33241c79b768a3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a561307ba9161a7ce5a3bc0f2d87ad18 SHA-1: f4f0f9b9412093c446618101425d27c61309d6ea SHA-256: b33241c79b768a3eeff4ce5a48f0ba2757858282b60297215650873048606d8c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with the embedded links or potentially calling a provided number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/60714857272.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/pujasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2ac709ee1ed417c131525ffd5f9b86/4644550253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/1081686895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ba753f7d3---12733566349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116e607a6c8c---8883606087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/11393558169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf16ae13a20---74098187713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d440c2d7bdae89e7d6836c4c355f4b0/vurejutalefovefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/72794292049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757edd19dfa---99493801261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantacyhandicraft.com/userfiles/file/pebonabituzilopena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e05bea3c6---27549259909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcbp8d17t0ugceibufch5qfn08/gubibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/pelelovapekijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/jubularijokutopatudefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607243d4aab79---mokolokumaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/savefuzuniboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f8388761d---48133802506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c86964fa40a04df5dcaaaffd132d8a1/rebilukakunagofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/wuxuwifagebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687622823782a2c781895ea45a14f56a/rizelenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/93654161792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=introducci%C3%B3n+a+la+psicolog%C3%ADa+comunitaria+maritza+montero+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ceb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB7 11276 bytes
SHA-256: e35deb85dfd83563af8d38f6eed1495757e7f83076f041248c942eb3b12c8b26
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B0 16632 bytes
SHA-256: e896d0c9c6509c93731645541c0836c845742b74f7fde2e8ff5e94baacc6a6a0
font_02_sfnt_off00010041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11853 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 8b00ffa5892e6d95236db8d096ed100293a2d7a8e00ae59e495bcabd8aac19ae