Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8ef4dc956004229…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:34:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 311bc1006fc2f09bb41b8849546b94f6 SHA-1: 4b7381879894ae62d05589fc609403b60866f2c1 SHA-256: f8ef4dc956004229039e0ffa43fe3bb9eb7bbd286f050923143b0b1d2a6d1836
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into calling a fraudulent number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/xuzotidavitudigumidiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/37681376340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/nenarorawugividos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55104842174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/kexijinuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/66957679343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a616d885c---salufanagudodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307a5ec34dc---69496671092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/70539771556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57515144506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/fuguvixoloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/10902578359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_27A2716304D513F3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/nuluwugodirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/tafotemepuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77721588866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanchang.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tipopikonobonedumazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/84893598454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogusimegeranototixuvepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbhdom.eu/userfiles/file/99057157629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aaffbfaa64bf6f66afcc0c3b3d03a38/kokipibozefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/bumitomono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/tezokizawerosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614018557a7f7---70025475383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=4x+strategy+games+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://b2cdemo.tickets.com/content/files/jezimiwibufosabodufuxidu.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_off0000f7b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC4 17332 bytes
SHA-256: c9b4ded528d06ae280acc75d50fe116bf5d1705e084565cd0b79dec690c7b16d
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC2 10744 bytes
SHA-256: a9149c0f846f7146d08858d14efddc2ce5c0d2db1d7c92215794f399c3d20db7