Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd89900eda5dffac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-10-05 14:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7236706d7cbcf2c8730287bdc7b05a1b SHA-1: 4ec969f9ade59bfe69a043f0e8ec43f3cdd30b2d SHA-256: fd89900eda5dffacfd7f3f207b880f6d010019e5bfdf28c3832afde406933aac
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, typical of phishing or tech-support scams. Embedded JavaScript was also detected, suggesting potential for further malicious actions like downloading additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/bomuniw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fortworthdental.net/cmsCart/upload/file/52623191748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021100112591357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///sujazaserekomamimeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496b72d7c88fdba7616f9509de251b13/lovuvumedivixakurufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coverybox.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71991091528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quizai.com/uploads/files/xilagupuxejafasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/89862728862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carscaso.com/js/upload/files/65613245076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm1nl69iu0i106ltqkbl9a5738/fefekavadumakegudifigexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54148613622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613076d74f023---pujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/danuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e9c0329bb5---senaruxepufelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///zujunelovidakefexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/mujokiwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/jomoxufukokixasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/79711546152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/11564509153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magdrywall.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/99093083430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/zuzefofafalinori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/130265796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/74551708523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijonivobodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/nomefinuzenixemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+cell+phone+cheat+codesPDF 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_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 1cdb2c3e0bdd33939834ebbfd4ff7120405dfc60e98db88a0df28de3880694c9
font_01_sfnt_off0001371a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014f31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F31 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 074941e9a03d2e26c3ab54fa4a7e8d7384873e1c4b65edcce9b0ecb1dab1fef7