Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f7852a04712fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:07:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0aa31a4e526ef04bf7d4232d7c5ceed8 SHA-1: 7b0b7385f616efcc6bf5c40bccd41b227d116589 SHA-256: f3f7852a04712fbada0ed98f0349ac209302ee3e80c97c6d3ba0fb774ec2bc80
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 or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further support a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cost+accounting+a+managerial+emphasis+13th+edition+solutions+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/xewesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/96996957695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/40255649563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/22238259555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ea2748f8a---ganusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/74018503592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/gisidesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9gfm171abaig2pk78tntnuee5/71337328771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j8v6gor8mmca9h3u3t2jgbbpi/96241602351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757b110e68a---19374651761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/3779821172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/zolevulana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea1794e84f15986a7814adf7059bbd9/nedujibefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd924850edf---97521000225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/7261536109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f36c679efec8a90f97c69abee52e312/80317233737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd30e6c88a4da1510dcc3bdefccd2ac/vaxoletoxoxudufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/9711166245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0cba6b0575c56a6cce7a9a2d742d723/wilimukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn4v1d990q7iifci4r8rauvub4/46591252635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfa687b3de7892a57cfb438fbebd6bb6/26720997518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/94094069300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202107100100569111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/89274718493.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_off000103f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F8 20424 bytes
SHA-256: 6bd56d36dbc2af1d69c357ce491afa3716f1ebc7c8001cb0080e9317fe9538e6
font_01_sfnt_off000139cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139CD 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 2375ab575afa5a649a28169390030ccfaac83d04303490f84fd644b0b33b16f8
font_02_sfnt_off00015473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1