Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df8316406890595b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 74f9103ce78bb6ace135981845b780c7 SHA-1: 1b151469470f4f39de54f37a820ba8650060987a SHA-256: df8316406890595bc68cbb900985a902f0be1c3acd038c66cb2c2d7cadc4577e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=welding+procedure+specification+for+carbon+steel+pipe PDF link annotation
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/zerunaxonapowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/govovedegopubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/92171097018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/45063869841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ccd5c132---12167410005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/pofegavudodudusale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9003823d8d36fcd35d8156e5b5c7ed14/99156972509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/4838620967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404c11f1c9360be1e141f9ef61b27f51/fukibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19443807463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd4cfb10f0---ramijerixinawafosisamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19qh6e6hutvt0am729ic8041l2/9443674105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39fe0b5287---11781062509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/vagilagasopawiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/19062148578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/nobaliwokuseduposabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsl8no271283opg1ve7lecm65e/53269072834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/14022258520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4639370cf806280f93dad6c472685fe/32985549296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76392915411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD0 17052 bytes
SHA-256: b7a94e490962819cc8b363a2fd5c4bc8b6b2c6782b2c8923454f9af3c0f37b01
font_02_sfnt_off0001294d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294D 11028 bytes
SHA-256: def4726fdda2e42313e7e3a82b8b08a638cd6009ec8525dab788846273604abd