Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffeb301add8bef71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8c146c5d6b08098da6b67485a8a8430c SHA-1: 7db14b78d512989e224b638b095b70609dc7bf11 SHA-256: ffeb301add8bef71483d6ccb6c2b1b19a046b406fa1378913962ecac08dbd348
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing multiple links to potentially compromised websites, likely serving as a lure for phishing or a tech-support scam. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' strongly suggests the document's intent is to prompt the user to call a number in a deceptive context. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nokia+lumia+android+installieren PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161476c2d47224---85465500931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-09-21/images/files/saroxafabibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/73139835176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagakirowibaferazurinona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/66042486407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamatekhanevadeh.ir/ckeditor/files/files/62708942241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210906144327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/menanibevopumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409e887683a---mununatatodajabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329c7acc6e8---73400013354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210918060845394392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/vomesakotojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtaniketan.com/userfiles/file/vevuxupenanobosibemizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/62843057625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/95441007903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/dapusodixuzipadubibabola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/kinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truck-transport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83774748677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/12886924264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/10909370053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/22789549531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/74381442489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adatarimhayvancilik.com/Images/Media/files/43319349042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/37501137113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles/file/wobomojalifirelewedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vignolaweb.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lorokepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoptavky.com/is/images/FCKeditor/File/luwugitewun.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_off0000f4fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FB 17752 bytes
SHA-256: f2dbafb91b94d568521d733e2ceafa1cf00861b3c0d9c29981a2cba7e3984bfe
font_01_sfnt_off00012315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12315 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2C 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 82d0f667a3bdd5ef4fbc3f0666515383f99b3924a6f2f7990f05f53e86b70490