Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef1cc2e08f5bd219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 396d11439b866047cb6d461421779547 SHA-1: 4b2b78eff00facb6f9c00fdc397b09942ce655ac SHA-256: ef1cc2e08f5bd2199c9c4f602891dbf701fb3b2f92ce538af33df1a8a912fbdf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, likely aiming to trick users into visiting the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pole+transfer+function PDF link annotation
    • http://dallard.fr/ressource/site-image/files/97716962992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6433c4550cd80292f60c94127a6867e/wasiwatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphone-odklep.si/vsebina/fazesitovuwubafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153e4acc4ebd---51859946397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/95248317788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/doromuburomurafifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/sesiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/75758022172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/36550033680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/poxubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/23809158128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/sizegemiremubamago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/fogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/23541567824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/xejisafivufekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/dowitibagojiwibuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfea858727---fazobusiluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/83376121694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65448001072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krcatikyonetimi.com/userfiles/file/54057163568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c07726769eeef466fb945e370cd20f0/sowufaziworepaxinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/79799135726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jizikuluvejevubew.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_off0000b02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB02A 10428 bytes
SHA-256: b11b3bd8251ccdf578d5a2edf399d226ecac46544e4ba05b2299ebab6ac526f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 16200 bytes
SHA-256: fcb5da7c1ed0e0adf4b4ad232b62352e3fefd9004653d2d9e2f6c33346aede81