Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2be351339c9d0c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6ac09a2aaed367771e2947fa9c1cad02 SHA-1: 170eedd788166a0b4bc1699444bfd610cd388424 SHA-256: f2be351339c9d0c66d79bd0af062e853003f7a969624725f5e20ab7b6cef4df3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and uses a callback lure, consistent with tech-support scams or phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to exploit users through deceptive content and links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=superchips+flashpaq+3875+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvrmah3hvc17do11ternf9demp/55604782587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/07/27/12032012727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/77622732710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/92285862889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/fapitaraduguzibegobupeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cccafc9a1b---13769830597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/fatimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musik-fachberatung-neumarkt.de/images/uploadedimages/file/52545512244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/21722305184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/34364801488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cc34ca6b34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b394c7cd65---10606870031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/suboradax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/savojanamadevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92942194946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/pudepegamixorarigadejiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/21088195436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83a39aa1d7e2e951e4a022a080e9a5e/norifosapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lockerova.eu/admin/upload/documents/rifixirajasijupejivefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210723024910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e986f046ee132027ebfbbd36add0ed/52886025626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/vevupofaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab19043a9---27097785817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/90320697822.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_off0000efd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD2 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 8bb348038e73a126e0d8911847352ad9c3c980310d7f4ecf7f63b698a607b614
font_01_sfnt_off00011eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAF 11412 bytes
SHA-256: db1b77d2e3872185370b779ebceea809f42c8838df13179f32d5c67030ae93f4
font_02_sfnt_off00013969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13969 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1