Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb39ecad0b8c230d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 048ad2671231cfaf8ad25c5e5cf96723 SHA-1: 0cf600dfee236e0e5df169e1f27f9ecc4e4d00e0 SHA-256: fb39ecad0b8c230d5fc7e3c9ee9f0cc0dd824f6e2d1ade9b0184fc2afbadde01
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure, suggesting it is designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or scam attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210909015949.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/xodekenelekomejoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locum-system.pl/userfiles/file/62506154425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/4516335762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/pebedefitufiluxirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/juxupafumadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613172a6ba529---85923214233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/17476964896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/wirekagorunifekujolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/ketapamazigafesuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84424529221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/61056153900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/mukenoliwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b94120f1b---mukutipafoguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/78062110513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atsamuihaus.com/image/upload/File/84171430538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/vazarumurinipesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/99909603452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614358b87259b---bafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/noxigezetikomixudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca4kh5v6n26mrdrhthgh23ndj/gegugolomuzakizevuzuneluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/49524196801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/43755174064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=video+compressor+for+androidPDF 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_off0000caca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DC 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 7c86ce4704203680a1106ca4f4775d22d97faec71321257eaf53a912b9e16db8
font_02_sfnt_off00010eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAE 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 694bb39605924bf2dc74617b3d689fb52fa984994dcba90e9a56e80169489ed6