Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffba6f1e57bce729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6dadd8b96813900600bebcd7183b168c SHA-1: 1588cd62719734677dd83be019fd0660da2a3567 SHA-256: ffba6f1e57bce729a1f269219f297e9a919726b4d21490b7b81a026774a32925
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic suggests a potential for social engineering tactics. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5+letter+p+words PDF link annotation
    • http://supragyn.cz/userfiles/file/9859934127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd12ef238f18a6a225018d8fd9f8c823/6995842172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109171641578847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senvietsystem.com/ckeditor/upload/files/33085257884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147c28994649---81156175269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ventisilva.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujimamedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofenajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjanadzieja.com/images/wyswig_images/file/76343469015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/52371788389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/16476582762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/gevarevuwafamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/tivuxuxavisadawoduruguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/lozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9555a518a223466d00c386f7e967490/wozabamamalaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lumullkb2mc7t913k96etk5l9/fizemipadopopasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/61583036467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/fatofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/888623574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/79220104539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b839da3f90890f7b05fd2ea3aea7eaca/dezegagegosipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81980864128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/xadiguxojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613836f575196---72990266842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gutovijadomabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easyown.ddproperty.com/datas/files/titosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D1 10152 bytes
SHA-256: ab79fc725844768206dba7ffa28b2ce4181a723a0a436da9b5ff4a6737b2263f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB4 17812 bytes
SHA-256: b7034205251efa25865aa26b28c063481656c3776d048900f2a7ffdde52212c9
font_02_sfnt_off00010e1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1