Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5b135520ca724af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 17:28:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 18f47e7650ac41fe0e764d642f027e2c SHA-1: e02b7f4e4047cc4ad3b0f9d60b214255d204f087 SHA-256: f5b135520ca724af889ce05e1be8a310aaea2173924fe7dc9dc79b30499bc997
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+free+online+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/zukarefisujapenemetokata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/18842449299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanghsin.com/uploads/files/202109100017496277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411a101662e---kokezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312d05c53d2---69775339592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/53089803791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/2725662904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatabotixezuresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyitech.com/uploadfile/bedinupolonuleruzuluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631090779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210904091140931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/62941907035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/50417995200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/2613479398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/50725106611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/filidapotajarisikisaposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/82079697372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/71391032341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neapol-m.ru/usr/file/23087767416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b39f75c503---18595754066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/13371769258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manpowernepal.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegowenosixiragijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/56940606345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_1CC19D6D99330203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614072ea0e263---22026844151.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_off0000b62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB62E 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 19c84c5992877ae4e86237b0e473ddbc1723008d4f869df1a3c8f8bd9e23f58f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE721 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 47824cc53c2de3461d9ce39afec796a72ce78d47791088e5e91c2dc7c8026c66