Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8a36439bd83a1f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:07:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 83a6cd580401eed7f820a5b167a4d1a5 SHA-1: 9df05daba1f3e3d8a89532953f58b0549b841f8f SHA-256: e8a36439bd83a1f755433fe597e06a97080fa938ab1044bd59897d7a7e18a1b6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a phishing or scam pretext, likely aiming to trick users into visiting a URL for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/72110602106.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073db26d985d---zijiwumigitotonapeduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/xojunogamazugipoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607197b70726c---58476942835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d80f8d9b9529e979e23389949e34532/rulugosaxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/tugeluwupusomomonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog//file/94963335861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/zenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jejuecotech.com/ckupload/files/14927215536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqsfga02ejt8337he5qut68ij3/76465410986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de6126c9a50980d833271dfb03fafc89/32936009145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7337cee5f5---vuxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102941a1d5a7---ripazilonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/97741677173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47af8bfa02---fijixatusukepeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/25968190788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/91131163886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/wudofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4136c9c736b11f240867a220c40aa069/lusegusagokizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ompa6lm4i01kc198lc029hai8q/zeroroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a101e4d5ac---xofarixibesegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimokamaxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/pulavefowenijusevilokude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+my+kwsp+balance+onlinePDF 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_off0000bd79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD590 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 76cc8a4993988bda02db87177c4b1aff0d994f6a6f31cd9415ed4dd94d1af218
font_02_sfnt_off0000eea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA4 15560 bytes
SHA-256: 088929574b48c2a095eda977aef69470f8e25a64c4635a298f76d3765686a930