Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f541524c98a268b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:36:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 54badfe06065f677cd25a420eb4f7bb7 SHA-1: 4b51a883233d23457d8b378cfb5e8f01b91d73d0 SHA-256: f541524c98a268b845d2e5704c1a682fc118cae9dd2ed9b9e3d73b54f2cd4c1d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file is identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, indicating an attempt to trick users into interacting with malicious links or content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://hadt.vn/upload/files/44162437670.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f8dd26032e---bovavogureraxezaxoluwepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/54028473342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2gacor.com/contents/files/51104810818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210908/file/16310348868793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirmazandaranihospital.com/ckeditor/files/files/58685203893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/wazorewamoken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/wevizujikebixasuzuguduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/pesolafokizuturobifomawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcleancenter.com/uploads/files/202109011517233145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613487b8de0ba---jawonusolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/xarewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/91191280794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89126255198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edd529f228---79848890185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/69790423685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a22e50af06---sotepoxudufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/pevibupisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vp-dmsh.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamezufimuropugusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/84960932229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdxqw.com/uploadfile/file/51847259655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97fee7b4ff8eeecc171b4d0fdb3a145/54264419837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+4+subtitlePDF 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_off0000d3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B3 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d93d0c34bfed5ea1481aec50b06462cc45de8cdb1bd5d6fd302e5a795652249e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBB 17268 bytes
SHA-256: b6e9adf4c59e8f5e163032fd1635cd141299382f3d17701adf10f2ed62b45165
font_02_sfnt_off000117fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1