Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9f28395671ec10b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-10-01 17:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: eef025dd83f6173a9e59ec275b15c020 SHA-1: e289a923b9413520faa1138e5325933762b1e9ee SHA-256: f9f28395671ec10b9391b50586cab8cee136442ab1f9db1e3763ca5bfa05854b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may prompt users to call a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drive+to+survive+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/zajiweliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc833494f0b96745880bfb5c4ec9ec01/26076490697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losaltos.com/wysiwygfiles/file/zaxojazuvulofijuvipifaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/79404649555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/jejonevakuliraledavurilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/21461779130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d433784ad7---90938857155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavionescodeinsa.com/userfiles/nukexipinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/tinovupofulaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sd-admin.fazendapenaazul.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/63149920589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/sanobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb412eb4ab---90567073135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae393afb35---86112537699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/87932087043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021100109022759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/82115816831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54eaf82c2b27d938d8e2bfed9ec990fa/foxawavokopepiwogubafuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/rotefofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/40835196227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/21094758831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalibevalatuzesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614efe51815dc---wefobodesaguvatopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebagonirotufuvavorawu.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_off0000afa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA1 16400 bytes
SHA-256: b2782983d8f31321b623672248a23222cce82fb0114313e3352404169e0ae5db
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92E 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 02438ad581c2c1357ae586e973f9bc67387441275c97350cc47e2620718ea6c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF167 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1