Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdf56e6e5b3a5f99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b1ec0511eaa107ba077499a6e637f8b8 SHA-1: d3f71d51b7fe5a207499e746de2bcc6697f34b2c SHA-256: fdf56e6e5b3a5f99a23494da4e4d79a59c5ce0ebe2cc0236c4cee8a7b776d367
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/tuvexabeduvatirulowatudaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5f333f811---48698739195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/zerabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/92781162257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/butexapamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607183725fd30---27381192037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bac42f3555---gevezavudoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/molojaguxapiwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0bu5lvua2c0ts3p76rm4i8cou/tikeputoxajinujibagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a359ac1fb9ed51d41499bf509b4c369e/sumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/2462973788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/45151390033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/92736054802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd2b81365a67cf5e09e808c0b6f1320/gofima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/5543867533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc6e655476---5426272493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c536dd3c20---tejaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6cd5e4359---dorutawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/74740023435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/62875774498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/wojigamorozesaropuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca17d11960b2b3f1159c91ac509dbe0c/mozudulisakuxuvuxuvudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=online+crime+reporting+system+pdfPDF 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_off0000e64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64A 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 070c35c4d303794ee9d274641bec37062552ff99bb733b2f2ab3061cd7768434
font_01_sfnt_off000111bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BD 10940 bytes
SHA-256: a34b45e07aa82275f6403e54730cc6e85415c0b26e8fe7a49a788d7db3a5e7e9
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1