Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4bb5e145b91cad3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 22:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bd0daf57080b26a1b267f8fae9e85dec SHA-1: 6cb7a7064a3d3891c9d10a0e772053a4a428414c SHA-256: f4bb5e145b91cad364fafa9907c87a49a6ce2f70c6458b2173c85bff2f822339
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious PDFs. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the presence of callback phishing heuristics indicates an attempt to trick the user into initiating a phone conversation with an attacker.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e66f9ee5a957f97746120976ba9e8df/dilowivemog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/92464837705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/rosafirexamonimesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/022121394052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822ceaa5a2b---26032640803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d78548ba8---60495086613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/wusamezilebonidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkscam.com/userfiles/file/76666176078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929f2bd4eb1---25231867979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebowosefozologefudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezisojipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63273792573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/mulujamepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521054924740364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0d39a0476---84627253758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e309h7jvi6sh2fck3n0sgvnt51/79422527008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/delutadaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e30244a61---62086972728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092241aa8cc3---pofasedisoluludotidofewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/89500407719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bfa72be21ee786a534cde3d65e4c783/nesubenukasagovaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqk0off2hqqo4kf7f5ncic5vi6/nopufutigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/suromag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/72772253138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/99095121062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/tuxuwuwasijidesati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=capitalism+vs+communism+worksheetPDF 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_off000130d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D3 11016 bytes
SHA-256: c0205b77ffa9af69664397992c28c5a94e59ecb205339254c53b0e749f555e78
font_01_sfnt_off00014a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A55 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 38d86ce752d6f4eb60ec8cab9bb4fd2875b058760f84a070ab1770d42c8cc845
font_02_sfnt_off000176d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1