Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4b87f30fefa1c84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 02:18:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6d3518cf8ed97a939d4d51a350b7ac1c SHA-1: c939135a587a28cad2930573fd2f65a14962d66e SHA-256: b4b87f30fefa1c84fafe8c938fd7d252de4fe84a10dd535bc36e275b25e7eef3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kamyab+jawan+application+status PDF link annotation
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/banalugebodaberem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0d0fa4908---7868521358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/dudopuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/16551289920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he9702agqbeob41i6cecr4ecop/20909309306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c28ea556---44981016902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/xeralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mi67nh6aaooj3nbl4rt7e3c66/wonejorokuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174c9566c9---25691162580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d2c2f16e5---jeromefupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c064fd822ec0ed5a1535c2997f523a/83742707267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b16fa1e30ff297e6ee01e3326ab41207/84835877898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/novulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1d5795de272d74597315f57229c827/tosulibonekarobexelawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d569601ef---bedafakurogajuxokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcb4653445a3104f550dc5db9582a21/64621077536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sni2nmjnqr12c4i7jelabfbb4/vikiguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a049acc003db9de0f5b5aac746f6542d/sisupapamuzamupojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn 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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000e90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90D 5364 bytes
SHA-256: dad989fedf057e986fd9f09daf8da66dbf0a9a263fce615c727d14f286cadd2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB53 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 4910d0177da9f60ecc92c13a34fae8c5c38ffafb9e4e22a3c3fd987548b79157
font_02_sfnt_off00010b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B34 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 65f053462515626ac4a80a9197450f3b67f2242246c0b0470c62eff4f0f7dc2d
font_03_sfnt_off000130c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C4 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 0bae8649ba252bcfab81cb8324cfe1737d73e47191b507e117e6d0858e0066a8