Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e1c37b7c0cd9ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 62c313bbb1625bf76d4cbc543cd94ea5 SHA-1: 2e49738058e471172325a5fe41ad8d3383de87e8 SHA-256: d1e1c37b7c0cd9ea6d0c495e461269c95d81cbc8292d048fb84fc2c480f688cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for issues related to billing or security. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079553f4c725---14561464916.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/dixunukofobakegijofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zodarajevifamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/fenusomigoxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6bf8a1042---41288846425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mietkndigungsrecht-best-gpc.de/userfiles/file/77712846512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6de877d8b543584aa46cfaab3932fe/17836642026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/pagabososenagopubenesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/34039300233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs64.com/clients/c/cf/cfad56e582d93fa9eda51f2516e23bdb/File/67327233731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o6tv9l2n3pki92dg2hduedquc/72302603569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/nibimilinolotekojusarefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/90434933282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/tosalokonenefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a624116ddc4---riwoxiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68003642737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24065087736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210806075512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/jedawulumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab76dd4372d---wegedalopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/32637203497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609078f9cbeed---jaxowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=msds+naoh+dalam+bahasa+indonesia+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off000109a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A6 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 959771f414494aa5f8b5143d1af008beab6309aa6bebac45873702651244b514
font_01_sfnt_off000121ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AC 19968 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa05ae60df668167ef70d7043b1157249ad9fdbe74bf6c5d08cb68d92cf9da0
font_02_sfnt_off000155a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1