Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8b16e92a04fbfc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 780915414aee1fb1a66f28f9feb9f67d SHA-1: 24dc7dc7dbe92bc40c4ff8108353af84c1065130 SHA-256: c8b16e92a04fbfc2604b2c7c75d0d337933071ddfb2b32f58ec877ad1e88d4df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to potentially malicious URLs. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=textme+up+hack+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37735212930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/15352969840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/75891375567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a3278574843449f7a8f7dd3b45fc02/87046734272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/52346311041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/62344906746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/7560390918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/33295590212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/xudaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/95548259227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferien-in-zahren.de/images/file/40036984385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/jimesuwukegulezoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farsiherbal.com/cache/fck_files/file/xuvafumamazakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/sejarojoveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7302b915d---59373024167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/33430045760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/javipupibutoxeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae6d0582f2---84484148480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/25815358762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/nimigujerevitogusipono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/kopowimudumeditotalanogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad263fed2ab14f52648615d12af07b8/31445012476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vevusezuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/lufubavidofapafodo.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_off0000c35e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC35E 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 1a9a0f04ba71ccb28029aa087d7bd593f975820216b82f924c924fa6170fefb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000db5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5E 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 3ae919a1a74ee75b2f89c6e0ac26df2e99b7c5bf9fec368ea0a7f4b779b92c31
font_02_sfnt_off00010835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1