Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0933f2858e3f221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 696c725a88dbb2ce658b327aa17fba93 SHA-1: d63685bbc33e155af47ee3f885ddd8bd285b343a SHA-256: c0933f2858e3f2212a87470ceb854572d052bc8adde717cfa2c2c85af5ef21fd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to potentially compromised websites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the callback lure suggest an attempt to trick the user into a fraudulent interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/82360019807.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2ae6560f023c29bbbbfeb06aca34c32/zasiwatuxenakuputidajelum.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607588bb03c46---75673301350.pdf
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmkk84l4i5t9rj4uoj3nfvlo3f/fosuvusawalaxodukomaju.pdf
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/67197815942.pdf
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c40612b61439f451e1cad45b87629da/wifujuluretoluxosaw.pdf
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/98926185842.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f07d47d92a0761cb63c6c323eb2451/xavexuwojigutobixuw.pdf
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipojeful.pdf
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e81bf42c76---gixizufejusefupe.pdf
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/bunesojadot.pdf
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/18756045936.pdf
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/96771588531.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mmkvknuai7ne1el4gu9e243at/fanixesovijujerox.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/258cab582e48b3afdc03c24de0050ab9/14673049205.pdf
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/50730930326.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85003821.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/66227856017.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b509043579---fimesexuv.pdf
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/romoseru.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc2fc74bf4---8657936822.pdf
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/62709205262.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4050031c9cbe8085e1cbebb9cc1e3c/43395578533.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e25759c87ec41305436e8e9f5055f5/93994521305.pdf
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/88739324721.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fish+home+delivery+near+me
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f160.bin
5940f80f97f7a71ef84a404420c5f694490917b7793eff20883d11a6ecf1215f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF160 10572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001094a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001215c.bin
0f50607b127044196837d5a398341ada18972ab435886bf9dcc49dd73d9ccbc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215C 17152 bytes