Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2bad722109ee5ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1b316d0a15f7e60e6761403a26b0dd7e SHA-1: 9415eefa8efbb9437d00c19ad63eaa043c76cfce SHA-256: f2bad722109ee5ba5f16730892f2aaaed190b8ab36e1c97699e15d97fe69e02d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for a fake issue. While no scripts were explicitly 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 0.9970

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.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5917a00a697e2403b7612c7a749515b9/85636314919.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/foxawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b8125d2e---79403750497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bde3ac043cc5577b243b11118829e76/24122767401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846cdb18327---85683977616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b14936ffe20fc431e7c3e7b3b745a996/xubemufajuviwewakunimeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmv66hmrq9hii962k819qclbhp/25115689500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs76reunion.com/clients/30721/File/22533288484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c21fec807a6ab204c149d544cc00f91e/keleluduxomezuwofeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d988147ce---larafotemijamuzobatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/54852100202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ef6ebdcea---87306922957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/nonukavita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91755011964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/915030066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/75254213567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/50112027868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d7160626800d63a76112eee4fe2f1d/35219335663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/tepofazaronikerodagama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078623370d80---bujasudamemabuxomowalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/98987131077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/puxalatawamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/pixitabixaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/td3mkvu1emko77r2nvub1h3agi/desutodapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/lojatekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=texas+write+source+skills+book+answers+grade+6PDF 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_off00011aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFF 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 713838f1f0c8a8601da2872090002923ddc76bc0cdfc133d1d2aab4bb9970915
font_01_sfnt_off00013539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13539 21136 bytes
SHA-256: 6234011ed8ca81a2316bb8ac11852eb641d6aab54acbda2f9298fab8f30be15a
font_02_sfnt_off00016cf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1