Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed15b92474505a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 91a29dcc9673eaa817944f2044862089 SHA-1: 27fac474b5c360c3073755ca427394ea4284c4a9 SHA-256: ed15b92474505a7014c6e1eb1e0187e7ea789003290fb7e8e244e61a9bace664
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number in a billing or support context. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or engage them in a social engineering scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0971744cf3154e2d0f9e9db2274d1aed/25930101971.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/80732692389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/sososokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-tlg.com/files/file/68245257543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/xidiropedavumelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/rezefowoxefawidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/33597417448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenmessebau.de/uploads/files/bewefumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/nekamotemizujuguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.muki001.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafodasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f332d13a3a---xerifevafisimijiwefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/medatotuxilanijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/mevinapefegatanisogupusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/92963288535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210905033845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/favirelevaxupezisemakenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abcdb1ce9e6525a4eb644392ebb1324f/30906853543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/59857734507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bxbrdh.marketsearching.com/upload/files/rupimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6172c60c7678c21c9632d261ead39b/xepapidumoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/24240230305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxline.eu/userfiles/file/52195565940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/jiporulobutapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=marvel+avengers+alliance+redux+androidPDF 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_off0000d165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD165 10708 bytes
SHA-256: f4b86b2f19edfb92b37881f0e10c9a23b7eb76512c975eda7c4da633e49b8b08
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FA 17488 bytes
SHA-256: dbd3757eb7bd2bf0717b70f0e0ee991ce74818d9363a5e5cc0f9a0855d8a9121