Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb8b6d61b0973d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:59:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aef35d196cf0d411d26cdd8931aa9074 SHA-1: 3f3796bbba587aea4c2a47204d771b967362b24b SHA-256: cb8b6d61b0973d251c431340488a20aa2c1f091322569a1e9ffebd45abf97309
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's intent is to trick the user into calling a phone number, likely for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://stylekd.ru/files/lejetudojekum.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73b4a0269c---98254853664.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d795cbd4de359fb8e5c4be65d7d975/81909804055.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506032910297319.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a93bfc4937---8249458699.pdf
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/tomaviko.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081accbad445---nekojizijokexexosisuvi.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15ee90abfd---98934487111.pdf
    • http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/48316020734.pdf
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/60756412082.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46d07abb4d26a55d1c565a29e94996d3/xogujofagedakagote.pdf
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/77118071107.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ae0d3d6d6---91400081022.pdf
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/76363219262.pdf
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2aea063c5b0c4294d3b1255e0130bc2/ketixomiwojezajitabaj.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a710f01a1ef---97165546274.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852fbfce517---segopaledowofuvomo.pdf
    • http://iacsglobal.iacsinfo.org/content/uploads/files/tidobijutajenizi.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/68557568977.pdf
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11699253407.pdf
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210814011528280.pdf
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/nokojido.pdf
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents//files/78147671125.pdf
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sefunavisutajaru.pdf
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210803074903_1egyyg.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=swivel+sweeper+max+manual
    • 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_off0000e1ff.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa11.bin
86946480b2fa97d3465fda2ca12714e1d4d78aff6554cf122ff4a2c391acaa46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA11 18780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b94.bin
b6e1c1ceac55a3154b564bb635100f974db80925f8a0837063f0a912689c83fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B94 10624 bytes