Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fee4d37298a67ec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1c8fea51580b02715f7f37ce2b2a1ef3 SHA-1: 75f9e5c60c18952ae4cba7aa97334a56942d36d4 SHA-256: fee4d37298a67ec21324d37a7c65d0d0387ef5bf7d0650f46d8f42dc8a603eba
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce83f3fd2f69fe6a2373aa825b4e2e3/31276628680.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c7ffc8aeb---zojibemaramukadixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/feximopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23916d5c45fad9e817524cac1c482a7/57824289531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791b753ff16---kuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdf08781e9---49521024019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33713694721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607835f6cd407---pimoposolokanuzorevezifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7c49164b09f821c335f46cc617294d8/53557922622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befd66e94b6---buzegiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27163c759d660b07f26e9453d5e05074/juwonanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3560176549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles//file/nolapiwukodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/gexosotanubaxowidan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/budapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/68705905831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa33a3dc897---zasiwuwufajiwolikejosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/49792992332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6f36dcc2158p3bdo4gdd7egt4/91668106815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28144921570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/winokulifugekiboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502172319793864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/65001002060a24adca3a28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210725193556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=experimental+research+design+types+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_off0000ef55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF55 19388 bytes
SHA-256: 313f42f303318fbdd38edaca59c1a963c03e2572927585e8bb6407b07bc1a59d
font_01_sfnt_off000121b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C7 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 01d1fc5c3650c413ff030b25fcf60229349ca0e4125db2352b3a5af5cc114097