Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dab6a64143964171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 97ac3ed39232ded2786237a44703e62c SHA-1: 88718ba299569bda0fda0e031880f97d216613c8 SHA-256: dab6a6414396417113f19603452714f41afa5a6c3cea44e0a228fc6f3588779c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic confirms the document's intent to trick users into calling a phone number, likely for financial gain or credential theft. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to facilitate a callback phishing scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/pekelapefefawi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143162838689---videtujefatuwedutuwivotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10616228620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasopajibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/jibejawodaxazakika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/2778911007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/jazovenow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://materialdeestudo.top/userfiles/files/suwigabobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/37048609382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a66d218877---luduzuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents/files/84854642250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/17376585115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najatadogemugovanobakudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/8690119798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/pijifavorilorawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71457824922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142468039ccc---22750296473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81682529658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/94925831147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329d7321836---39425411294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/29175738516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/18171458211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westpakusa.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/xezuporiwufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballmillfactory.com/d/files/93398972663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+back+phone+contactsPDF 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_off0000bccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E3 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 4382210c309295fca3a386895543cfbdb598a164eb4209bf287438b5e4bfa053
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED57 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 744398cc875b7f93826c095756663f8af34d8ad863e0c3213bad8f2a40f20f86