Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce320b11a5e8647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 14:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: cd1314898a9b867a7a4bad40d92b5f49 SHA-1: 7eaf457ff4bf45eebcd6c2a21f34cb03bc65ec1a SHA-256: fce320b11a5e8647fed75e40f02068a5c144b17d5d6880594002d9f2eb9c7957
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts users to call a number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or refund-related phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=office+365+login+web PDF link annotation
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/71124258494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/64977854528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/relela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/fetadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedoliworetidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb25713dcf---mofusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbba85e2ac93275b41c3c3ae544afc55/nonifojokodititaregigomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e9facd572d---42989678179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gucaoyun.com/uploads/file/062134258799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/mogepomidoregapitipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/wokosojegavago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://columb-sklep.pl/userfiles/file/17568533556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52807344118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d914db9f7e550e31694a3c148da5902d/rixavuraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85943750660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86555361027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/wukuwazagesonobezodusizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/jagizolenidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_5480272402ED65F0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/87211755492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152cf63d0a52---xikewipaverokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614edfb64fd22---xuvopometigipidij.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_off0000b1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C9 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 90a2b5c898bfde6d5757ac1db63c01e5fded4f7bfd0b8c33c8504dd2bbee7024
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8D 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 7b1dad15b0f9f7af49f9bddd6351ccc8e19995a0476a95654cc1c9a7362d4166
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1