Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e616281f7f772ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-08-14 00:00:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e29b2b46a36294be5f8bf3ffcb4a5e2b SHA-1: 8910bea3809b8b082974f79a4bde0159dce3478e SHA-256: e616281f7f772ce2bc37c290f37ab8646f7e21d5e84cf0d181478910e629d6f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'Callback phishing phone lure' heuristic suggests an attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent number. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mtd+mower+deck+nz PDF link annotation
    • https://renesens21.com/ressources/upload/files/janikapepavagokuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a099c587940---33498444419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///58168343359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/66289360302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726517135b9---midanofapinepewebifurevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp2gipoopph2gbnpit0010qhe6/6042584379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/kasojizemoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/97804033676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu0m7o07g33ludt57qrdnmvcs5/53363219792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97732563418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/dufavexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/79771092030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/27674987362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/31431511208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/48721436449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/7545661846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0ed793d4aa---71215668503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k7439vifncd0n146n9u13umja/fafuxije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fbdd3e0c359b8047a0f9e8dcc3e201b/8072901675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa13635d0d4---gakizukeboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/16432736954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents//files/gikuvugubidovusavamidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/sibizadota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/vuwirelupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgog842mkqk0beicnjn5blgj22/73164514747.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_off0000d8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CC 17408 bytes
SHA-256: eeb7a346e0d258d860ef80f43824ecce91bb81cd2a450c972676cccd97d95e50
font_01_sfnt_off000106be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED5 10296 bytes
SHA-256: ba4aff334bda09e877593ee75062a48dc8d4aa50977c38c84fc623161b949baf