Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdfa3eececf11c67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 218651c0285f87f97bdfd20673acf0ed SHA-1: 85222f828ff056797297fbf51659e8d08d23df6a SHA-256: fdfa3eececf11c672b35bd8bfb27425bb3430b0f96818d6509adfd60f12ca01c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, including a link farm on disposable hosting and a callback lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing attempt. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly suggest a phishing campaign aiming to deliver a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/tuvokozosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/fegavibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/jarojidujalugumaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/94319584253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a204555a0d3ea5f4ceecfc85c833a4/boxuzusukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608072de3b83f---68437384784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/60371127806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/risipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/20655547525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/botud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/lonexozazilitorizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acab220cac9---datoruteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/61296772315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1399298606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894d022b8eb---ninemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfmgl96vismfuotf4plrefrob3/bagozubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ca36ea6ccf9e385187ec823142ad00/41740363819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/15076634699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc8h3a0futajcc93iac5mtcg3/47077724474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristenpell.com/userfiles/files/29288864777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgatedesign.com/Images_upload/files/47986826433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f545019e33111a75ba4f3649f7692c2/99089385429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mht+cet+2020+previous+year+question+papersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF229 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 01a6856268eb26ca4d8f0a49501c4985e24fbf562d14466d965207d70dd11bb6
font_01_sfnt_off00012159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12159 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001396a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1396A 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00014eb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB0 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 435163712ffbcd9e1f86167ff121bd5740f8842c3305154b2e2464ea8d192ec7