Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f85b2ab9b8767e3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:19:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f3389dcd80ea6b3db35f0c258f162c41 SHA-1: 20720c8afe31ceacc2742a50a03725374059c726 SHA-256: f85b2ab9b8767e3b389c2f12c06f6b6668856c08bfa302df7183f0a75d6051b1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a callback lure heuristic indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://innotack.com/userfiles/files/38349762613.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/zowogifutenofopobegafetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/sulezavunisujabuxoxijogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb61d035d4c14a657af8b528b27162cb/99539627239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-customer.de/userfiles/file/zegidefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f6904d230---12211949257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c3f277f441---28467585322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/45879879781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/37641683449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///zigagifoxuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8ab9e8fc7---9869309945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/jozojegumazasubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e39bb388d---gixenogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/19303229384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19cd435c9c---jevopegenamekafubupofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/8500788658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3640714f9d948e4c2317e04ec1be2d/4338032738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/7029120143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozopewusuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/lebarukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/povufabepekidudeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68327edef0---doxafanejatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de40aa2b8e---labirujoribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea027ba88523d805151dbc54c2701cfb/72976563367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=formato+de+certificado+medico+escolar+cdmx+pdfPDF 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_off0000faac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAC 18564 bytes
SHA-256: a1462ae4d7bc0900a6d1f32db3e41e0e6a1f4736dea9926858d5d4daa93bcf87
font_01_sfnt_off00012925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12925 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 1ebc19cf38ef9925f4d7c875a68b1aba557c9a51de34e95620eeeabe95eafdf5
font_02_sfnt_off000141e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1