Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5417e294a8eeb5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-06-24 21:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d012296eb206f8415534a317c2ca260c SHA-1: 8e7414de8b16a6c17e89fb73bb7d66d54643849c SHA-256: f5417e294a8eeb5c032a2a5c9f83c7949983e2ef2e464c17a2bee13a37b0a05d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwadexilevix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/31017529746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf9ab9b3b0---mezepebabidebude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499997effbc8f6fedb3ef7f4afb3a26f/55833383595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/77912674316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf42884ab9---64362174863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/347e8e3d695d805e60f5233b99238486/mavapavamikepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/40775306161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f30054721e---35334546516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/70792825304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a9d08fecb41f49e908d2c908e045ab/petejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/dofitogibitorape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=warframe+excalibur+prime+account+for+salePDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45703af3a50b9fe58986a02e7088e971/bamur.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC5 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 8e46c7d03324f1fc0877e4d860c6c6d047c2cb3183f63ebd70be52bf60a5351e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D95 13384 bytes
SHA-256: fbaaa200a4b6b043b2a695f6bdb98881c2b9027c38cd19ceca41f06cb82c5411
font_02_sfnt_off000149b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B8 16164 bytes
SHA-256: d781c508aaf473e50263a6aabc3f4161b7fa10724c54bb8d35addee38a7f1c44
font_03_sfnt_off00015eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EB4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361