Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe26eb8e1d25fe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-24 22:50:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2c602d1acb01aa638a4a132b3ec9888c SHA-1: 4308002cf70946a0d8745285dcf295026b462917 SHA-256: bbe26eb8e1d25fe0dbf729e96ca946228886b3b7ba381ed0c4ebd3ccbc5dab2f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into calling fraudulent support numbers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+mary+leung PDF link annotation
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed5f6df6c7---zojedawasadipuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5mofiua595jls60tsu686jbpj/73992017615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutururexugukoputuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3c77aad47---76845084160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4988a8f822237baa412a5cd05e3337/43339556700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa43a63de298ad3e6caa5f12a99aaff/vojovifimawajiwudetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ac991f101a0334680b8baecc493d92/9347521143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imaeb5rik6nikqmh4c2bd8vbl0/nifebuzepefovejivave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51ecc5e681---laniwapenatowuvapawomoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabc62142caee3ec16ddfd1b8356fcec/molebugosojurojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809cda3ccce---zekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/wudoninar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/56476735054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/79108346026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/84016659436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xoxajovoxowire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6bfba8ad2a---46439890336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/vumofirabodusinotifemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/72716579596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisezavemobajijanipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812441745d2---makubibisemugozolosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079034665828---fupujilarebadugagelarenu.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_off0000dff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF0 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed65419b8bc5a753a93f251b2854f2616b3c4d7565a9f443d3cbbc4712aa9b0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001234b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234B 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 271c0e3e001c1150cd1917918a2717bfe2f41e85a1a10b74d68d18c2e8897e73