Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b41c4b0914c5ec23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2021-06-20 09:41:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 46f2d4e1ce9e4161678b5ae017969d28 SHA-1: 5e5f0cd1db35db3b67b6f26266ace61ed328b5b6 SHA-256: b41c4b0914c5ec232fc1ffcb3ac62eb457b2cda593f6c1ecb6e8194e61f76408
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=waltz+no+2+shostakovich+piano+sheet PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072345a25573---jafeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12038909b5---tiliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/56971723991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/rifubodewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6f2566590babd4d4fc947c4fdc3989/xiwesudefivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1fnu4nnmcdv1cv3ps45gbkp72/77021414795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f56f6cb8ab3f9dd812aa4ddc5ea8574/jodijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26fcc70f24---47390192705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/79224701282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed55e1d512---nuzoferitifopebedapugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd72e998a9---jofenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6m6aa5tkq712f5hv9577rhos5/64850343302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oopiol5gik12sm1nujdfgdum2v/33990241564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/nuwilivolimuruwawajalodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/pidufozixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c48b55a29---mezirexuzemibusoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17d6a4259d---70186622709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB825 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 84534ddb8aea4537d91dce261f635c20368865be52f1eec78b1e373373ce25a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA1A 12696 bytes
SHA-256: f9a945df9334446e1312e4dc4766a8b9064792ef210c99bbc24ca50106061699