Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e780d3941e91e26a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a50717bef73f502aedcfbed12484272d SHA-1: 42d0e974c396717c161c054f2f5a24ee27c728a4 SHA-256: e780d3941e91e26aa0662b5613752c76d58a960cd740465724ada1765bfd93c3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/vekorukapiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33713740838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grancanariacomercio.com/documentos/file/laxiruzufumilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/xijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/buvikosezokele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcityhk.com/userfiles/6179068346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64094132144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0v3fq46bma6sfvguo2lh2gehm/pesufijolorekaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/13274142409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/sukakemejokixukewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalba.net/other_files/File/4476910380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/8714339810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/bowokoxabevovukagagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kd4olehemf06hvh7f0tijaqgl9/zovozexegujapirakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/bifekejesesunekawitadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1631432052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/xopudatirogikaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a79c6a560---6248685539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12725574913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmdscu.net/userfiles/file/sofakaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/64311108580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137808f31c2f---36014279744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicearthfiji.com/documents/file/27326378643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/ziwamutusopifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37993033801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=remove+a+gmail+account+from+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d4b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B4 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 279598c4f33fb3fb22a844e53b60a8ea0066f454abf42cbfb2d9aa71b53feed6
font_01_sfnt_off00010427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10427 11112 bytes
SHA-256: b1a1bf571eeb2578f90a8531e549116c0c4e8cdfb0198c8b5a9ccb7e1210a7cf
font_02_sfnt_off00011daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1