Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be601c9893c414af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:37:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 65a6fb8d1fbbc9fd4ae7b9dd4916a3c6 SHA-1: d95e7827a521719b1363e45f94797397d3fa347e SHA-256: be601c9893c414af92ba531c7f17329abd6258e238d2d509fbcf501894d033f1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic and the callback lure suggest a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to compromised sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+player+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/9894594037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346f3e6518f---97040744988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/lidoremaviketixeguximabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/64906299116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pamipazadateruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/27206988475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b57dd5bee5a4466b6536c41d55e3cac/92608218235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/66238749851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/25583580038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/85465066520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/xokiwezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5048750151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8cc2e6ffae658471be0fb0dd91f33a/75337291531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/fifirelelurenilajegasute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/menokawirutufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/resabeduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxakuwaxabudizaxozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flavio-tonon.it/public/file/5258745563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/tibiminowesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/10564947285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7ae5eefc57a59f3dec906f9cdf5edd/niwajikalererulusija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/luzasolubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210909065146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilcfcostruzioni.com/userfiles/files/bedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/xawamiwudujiz.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_off0000b861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB861 15116 bytes
SHA-256: 2fbbf4ed99312f5f9b7a3dac1442b74ee1682873cf0d52dcfff6398b43e0147b
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 10468 bytes
SHA-256: b3eaa173baba048f88888c793de0e4ce82958839748d8ff928d0948cdace62c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1