Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b448853c89293186…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0f1960c115447a031b6e1a096c9d04b6 SHA-1: 4a57cc8add3a30593bf8e92e1f7d91730efa2836 SHA-256: b448853c892931861b421c784e588665e6f3902d5925cd4d7987f5b92ecdecb2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics suggest a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, indicating an attempt to lure users into interacting with malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/loxopuzisaso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/76143875378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matokomelajokifaridikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/31174292720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/63450813015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d835aaa168---potowokuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78571741413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/68268989439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukonewidobekigarobupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/farerepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/wofuzeguzusepixerejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133fc42e69ec---26632190964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.ie/images/uploads/file/xumelilevigimomoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/levawojaritowirowelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/dokorukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/21962115730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139da8a6308c---pimufinenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/fezerokegalusawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/widowonemeribelamomoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/41950593049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139842c631ad---zaxaraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/69948031051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hooleihomes.com/cms_images/file/wegemitugavorugiwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquet-cortes.fr/data/Files/nawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+tank+4PDF 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_off0000da1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1B 16988 bytes
SHA-256: a5c58fa3d943c83df2f1aa8d5fd610eb7711aa7a3b20b79928fa6f4e1f5891d5
font_01_sfnt_off00010614.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10614 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 0d258df1985f69ffaa00e7c11332dcb4dc18f2eef4f82730c96dc9cedf3b7c82
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1