Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d88fbecb3408f5f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 13:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7530dc142a76b6e0d84f74d6bb7ec29b SHA-1: 84fd295bdad4b2a403c69184a92fa17deb3ac0a2 SHA-256: d88fbecb3408f5f035a12ceb6e42fb2dce84a3088aac53d4a6dbee2630b82e3e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to prompt users to call a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF link farms and the callback lure strongly suggest a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/81700929588.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a0eebc562---64501185540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73969521980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh5t9rfmipis3obpv64ttm30r3/91535010518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufeliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d125fa2295fed00b1c66cb349bc9ca5d/75120943364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15a922c5649a89937c579cc7877c1d0/rutazixikuvikupiderekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3inj0hde2v8o0epcqcqtoutqk3/nebelorafugowijamojilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/jefodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/44820480078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fizesifuneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091faac7473d---61946800203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/pasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/rufubenitagidaxoxaxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1bf6e7dd616b82447629836b3cf19c/3319325107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813421665c7---58207135606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/17285246977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/tuwanujagejasoguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc58c826145---guwasonuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/76629695853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cacc28f730---silitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/pisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69012376327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/gupejezizebenuvemedazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=florida+third+degree+felony+sentencing+guidelinesPDF 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_off0000fc3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3B 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 9e0957d541fec811c7d899d1e935a909c3cc00b624622170f1808be034429378
font_01_sfnt_off00011555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11555 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D67 17532 bytes
SHA-256: a4930e0192f781b42e67f4c9edb365f9c0f1035ec59a725f2156c9e41559609c