Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8c1630ed25cecd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-10-06 12:33:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d2feb0d0745df446aab66234b005cf2b SHA-1: 16004deec2ca9e6587f20f9e9818dc2df4d28d59 SHA-256: b8c1630ed25cecd3db48bf46ac5712e5312114630105f680cc144b8558b81746
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, further supported by the presence of multiple suspicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=form+it+204 PDF link annotation
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/95282518280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://channelletterguide.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7092961712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/luzulasumebejowimaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/kewukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/1627345660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlfohscl33joi23i9hfbtrptm8/2021880463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/kitopubakuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/fegadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613629e2987dd---jegafuvenezamoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614176b637d8b---tuzizowewelamezowamilisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/zijitomejanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/jonaputonifigojoreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/xamomabefikepuwibumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/48780316245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhonthip.com/file_media/file_image/file/11319401196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classykitchen.pl/web/uploads/files/kosebiwuxawelaxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/vutaxetowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/zuwusizisizawitimaxorufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/rijutopuletipakufabizaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/gitinokutopaxarikezelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/pijipiwiledijulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/sonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/2117806520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/45156392998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/nanow.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_off0000cc49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC49 9952 bytes
SHA-256: b40f53eb7afb6232ae00a9f8f063c8e9a578bc678b45a1f8ae732ea026fad930
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5F 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 2259cc48cc0694c58394abb4e41254638238166103b202c7e3d36bb2fbdbb4db