Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe29e4de24d813ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 00:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52e577b7102758938263cfe92aeb70b9 SHA-1: 2c2cc4cf4908c0cc27663a9a3f37276a5e7835b7 SHA-256: fe29e4de24d813ab3f52200fe39c733c587b646e9d70d021958694299b58e0a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload, aligning with the callback lure heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/wizofopabefazegijones.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613245d314db7---28934075561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a75f8ab3c0---20317879218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/tesorepezulowonofifimoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/vujone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/vajabelurudosoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/kosojurodosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amigo-shop.105h.net/upload/files/83378487752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a4941c2d0---16028656885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/18364134360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/42933233250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eikenhorstgroep.nl/userfiles/file/15378703273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/kevawamidejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/nejopekuwetodopafexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95591818071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/vigadorajujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/jamatiletuxaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/62114881498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/81546169048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/zusigoxupejoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ec5aef2ed---jakomujamega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorikazarobupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372db3a2fd5---21835127599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=unlock+xiaomi+redmi+note+9PDF 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_off0000dc28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC28 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 31cf51dc9348c4152f5250d60efe0e764368e736afc1a216b744f2836edeef5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D1 18232 bytes
SHA-256: f7dd454ba6ec2821095ee95dfab79b1f935ed46c7af3a119f4f2290327552dc6
font_02_sfnt_off000123b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1