Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b64219e350c050da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9106db0e7ff73cb0452fee34910d6b40 SHA-1: dd142b4d5995804154aef2ba404a89b0a918d89a SHA-256: b64219e350c050da4cefe8913996712ee6c40cca09b9d9abb8aa91c19bffe661
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'callback lure' heuristic also indicates potential social engineering tactics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nba+2k+mobile+apk+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--b1adrijbbb.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/56980524158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/lesofagopogefezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/lumatalopogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/77847974690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301df24a880---kupemavevinemarapimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/lenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3f713188fc8c585a11bae2aff34384/jowowunarusokeloxivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/45512428854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/zigidexibabujevutojefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/22628704786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovowewalikaguxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/72869358488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/xefonevajafarenurulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/ravovedikaxemojozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tefen67.com/userfiles/files/rolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40663942990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67808756285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/50542967959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastbeatbattlerider.saint-fun.com/assets/upload/files/29367746062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613175d367031---detupizezivobebome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/xoboxuditagarusovijawepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cataga.de/beta/files/file/86434710489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40122624357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/37114726220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39658549360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/33800530666.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE288 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9A 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 46aa456389d649b37583ca7e18241d13bd742d316f9ff8c8b70d24e95c9021b6
font_02_sfnt_off00012b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B07 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 962fbb7629165c9ac9e74d04854901fb0b3795d971c114cbdf3c2d28384a8131