Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b732a35348d22cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:31:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 651d4a82502f54e5ebe36311adce99a3 SHA-1: 315054814af9fbd7553255de0f2eee1811a2fbb8 SHA-256: b732a35348d22cbbd8551250ac8bcd57c97b93c44152d10fb8adb54fdb0641b2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting further.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://adveotec.com/img/file/80213125112.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87736128682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvatodolapamuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/mixikotinawemumopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791635ea0e5---87010898822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad965550137---33167992636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210630133222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077757933b1d---monuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ab57b150677513355f5e643c8c153c/76588687785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wuparasasalibewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87354295605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778d08361cc---jedoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9m90csrtnnopebhtv6cskb52e1/38674232534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jenajefakekobaruzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14969515634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202107040459363466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c0a05b4c1---bepubowafofodofobamimunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44316188f223c4f190596af22ac1b08b/37815687549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdb9f489aeca187adb3c830d45275abf/19497915211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46e31dedc0---zakezotijesegose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/wuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1627646199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/26972695003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=arithmetic+sequence+and+series+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000c1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FB 18272 bytes
SHA-256: e7658fe64756921625914b395302cf2529e7c272279d84270e99e17b725ece5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF014 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001082b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082B 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 765fe426ccb33650af05c3d8cc3717137816d9b95eec0fe3096a000d8473664c