Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de177ec5cecf73ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-10-02 16:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a73c210ca5cb0fbfdc22265517df5fe0 SHA-1: 813da46b37072b3c36d2a8ba06b4b601dd81d7a2 SHA-256: de177ec5cecf73ceb28f4cb7548312c9dd67e606bdbccab27d23ebe290797527
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, further reinforcing the malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thumbnail+in+video
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/fajafememu.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d169b4ca2e---73065316840.pdf
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34774066348.pdf
    • http://indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/file/64077330254.pdf
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/28552257419.pdf
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/71880135730.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f23c440799---93047276702.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edd4076d1f---31124872147.pdf
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/75379127260.pdf
    • http://gfk-schwimmbad.de/i/File/wusaluboxiwexiz.pdf
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109020100449215.pdf
    • https://edex.co/userfiles/files/nibakebufutizegepuworo.pdf
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/surefuresodavafiwaduwut.pdf
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/giwupiromisosopixobaram.pdf
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dolotixepevobizatezif.pdf
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/vukovopuwubi.pdf
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e845fb29cbf15019d79a5d8b9867be97/2946341050.pdf
    • https://skykharchono.mn/editor/files/wifigubukejenexitixove.pdf
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/65861679433.pdf
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxufonuvolidomiwopit.pdf
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/65073150368.pdf
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/2380505067.pdf
    • 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_off0000b681.bin
1148cbce97b4bd4e9e94711b79f7d878f033d80cfad4807ce25b0db07c60052a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB681 10416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc8.bin
1f125061ad25eea3599c9bf63fe42ff1c36b192d444075e9dc9846a49087ef0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC8 17656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fadd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADD 16792 bytes