Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa533fdc911c769e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 05:58:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 218d78586a91b18f895c3c1af9329f20 SHA-1: c420d67a6ddf6d379b2535ec5ebb1f3793574ace SHA-256: fa533fdc911c769eb858097db14de49e6f3ea4224674665eecf4f2fa5fc6b750
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ideas+to+build+a+house+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a27ba0f56---sexavulufazusupokokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d28779c22---94463475131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chernogolovka.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80440367207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pedrazzini-legal.ch/UserFiles/File/mugefamotatogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4921373528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/24390223764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c73b02276---pafemonesazefimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109200046456770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/60389304564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210914041735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/vojuxigudujeregaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/suwobitewuzovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wintechindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44204710812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/80127092104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3231d917127c71b679923f29ad8ea219/xokomidewiwobojutubuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/72217712044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kulittelor.com/contents/files/64436906677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94350701071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakra.sk/storage/file/xitefofobupisovifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423ce7b794f---28903202602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c05cd092e7---94064065894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipoz.pl/userfiles/file/nowodikomividufesogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/36003505785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladna.pl/user_images/file/tifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145abf481eb9---fovufasezimabagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/66119478882.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_off0000e1ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AE 17900 bytes
SHA-256: bd53a4ba18d72d1f93cd55815ad75a5128ba0797a518880232045efe9d78cd33
font_01_sfnt_off00011017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11017 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 37b5b3ff9a6d2971c9d4300b6d65082efe201075bbdcf6a2b4da8116c0db9625
font_02_sfnt_off0001292c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1