Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f79d2bb6e5020fd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 11:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4ecf8f1c8c5390e8b6bafe640fdbb147 SHA-1: c90d381a43dc3c3c9e1dfb553ba53a72a7ecfb5f SHA-256: f79d2bb6e5020fd3b37cbdd4a4b8c6da28815d29c6549246bdfa74f82dee80bf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for support or billing issues. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains suggests a phishing campaign aiming to redirect users to malicious content or collect information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/zavobimasurupagok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2e234c3751a6cd64eb2e8e8c2fe414/2041069493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/bokinuvafikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/nojoravojikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b131fe4e30b---29480006660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2944d02ff6---lexosinukamolutuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942af6507ae---17589849695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/74250934686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa9or2b2otnfrt1237jgo5n95h/laxazefirujigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec3dba6742---7034980465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6e5pkapqq60p26lmsli2mk745/ziwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/59609419449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c1837918f---98516696309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/10085955253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86b4571907---sujolovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c9a6bec30277fbb94d155fe336fdd3/61597304301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/23545667162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwojuxewijisububazala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/genuretagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/ligeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aff8fbfa8a---gukaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d375566c32a---sadesametovoxikudubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f345dc23e0---37521185347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71610627909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/9451323315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+change+the+password+for+my+voicemailPDF 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_off0000d18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A2 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 89a57978a0202ea648e02579807c0e3f91006e72279967e1d974a071051ccc06
font_02_sfnt_off000103e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E6 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 8046ed2c835591f8a4c0dfa9cd2c84058dfca89af17030851aba8185d9bd720a