Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9d53db9ed9900b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 07:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 92c4280c6876952afd8fa0015b936bab SHA-1: fb3066ab8b0e0d00ae58cbb5c56bcf96c4139ab2 SHA-256: e9d53db9ed9900b4d82fb5d0e63e876d21c5b529db7a8b511ddb84563dd159ee
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The presence of a 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic suggests an attempt to trick users into contacting a fraudulent support line. ClamAV detection and ML classification further indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/54965673296.pdf
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/99232655547.pdf
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/50395690771.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ea42f0b87974b15583f39db8eeb7c7/pekadulesoguzasile.pdf
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/sovugegopanumokemivexu.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8adae1d87d43fbde3a9c04091b01dcfe/xuxawomobej.pdf
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mra8c9h0l42r3siaeerdns1qph/gatiloges.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4e574eab0---57794191117.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sod4o58kgh1ct4tk7ji0akelf6/65130267785.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77c61416fa---filivelazumobujipizopu.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2rl1b1n3fdg1bmb6qqeq2rg17/86739224985.pdf
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/42625388339.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845f292d298---8462613664.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9cc2c93d0b5310edd8fce830dfe9b51/61290056772.pdf
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36dd565de290693fa265a89f37b2c8f2/83239810726.pdf
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/7172217353.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0a2fa57ba---82268419732.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510083534918486.pdf
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210717161925.pdf
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/75943900302.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f94c7455a13---gesatajasib.pdf
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/23612655612.pdf
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/2654564897.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pisiform+bone+wrist+pain
    • 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_off00011bd3.bin
5977ff2dd43443e16d83179b2b14d9bf7331e3734c49ae916930b94213f2a28e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD3 17288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001492d.bin
b5b73d7bf076a4a0d9b6d05a2410d76621a4f8c6c638f630ac760608a44a618a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1492D 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001619b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1619B 16792 bytes