Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6218b56f27976da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:54:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cf1546068c73374e09563ec91c06fbac SHA-1: b7223305c32b162826a0a8eb1c4ed794cffdc14e SHA-256: b6218b56f27976da49debe20c7ed0dfd72566010bf809b79c6b3eba845f5ba1a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure, suggesting it aims to trick users into calling a fraudulent number. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/zawad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/34135653915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4fdce132f---72380111803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/42513156698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzps.pl/userfiles/file/82707869210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1a3fc17a86eef377ffc277b618399a/xobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/99028848144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bb3090e5e---96979145397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakoxekujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kuweronesibixunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivaflo-south.in/userfiles/files/60089522563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73b29bb5fa---67771776999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/37317760364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgn89reunion.com/clients/862287/File/23932219931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f395df981955259790a117454ad11122/pasapuresavolugoposupile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801155bbb5a---bisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/pewejatiworavafepudalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6943464d7657257fa91aa8e2cb8d19d3/zutapevinupiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eebc0355c6e116a99dee35ab9841306c/mebolaforewabozanonokujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/21628031269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/45297151543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e6f350c8---zozowufodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-building.cz/UserFiles/File/zojekufuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/fidogebuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflacops.com/clients/83266/File/81014777427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=manually+backup+android+to+google+drivePDF 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_off0000d52a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD52A 11028 bytes
SHA-256: bdc9ff2a6e397edbee98a40e982e6c474ed3913be2a475098312a2b62ff76ee5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8C 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 067d7ee6ca359d3878c5be43b2f64dbc39fa0bffd4e956d57352fc787702d5dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1