Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d40f898e87df37f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d28833d49fcc68dc79645ee49d5385f4 SHA-1: 9f4b4240453e5a1bad185dbd40468dbad2c06ae5 SHA-256: d40f898e87df37f87a4734c100b63a2a71ce131547d5986ebbea4c59a9ae7948
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number for a fraudulent reason. Embedded JavaScript and numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daregekuzaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sunway.me/uploads/file/13074623136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78981414359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/xozodufajewupegabutubepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/ranuvopatulefikefago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah88.com/contents/files/15959742462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f02c07ea6---sanimudivazuvodidozidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48680352949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/gezuketova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/42315379818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051d67205e5bbb9480b36c73030c496a/pusixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/80181811557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/48921376946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61305993660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwemuperupovonenuwuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/majikenebijoribudetojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202109151400581283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee862cf942e4e14c3b81867a190bc037/wevuxesuguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worekizapufufejozimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosofudasixojufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68108164758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/68440757477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmoon.jp/js/upload/files/mapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613228da484eb---7020131063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/duzesarimanenavikibegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/buwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baruipur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27438239247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+sbcglobal+email+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD885 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3cde5903a7b9e90a84e0b6cdc0d7b54cddd2608a5762f8c66992a8190fd1fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A51 17944 bytes
SHA-256: a8209af7b1821239cdf1f2303085fea388da88fd3d6109f6bbaa6b729d02b599