Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00b02dcb8f68cf3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 10:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a5f69bb4e3bccb45f9aff5dc9aeb9ab5 SHA-1: 7cbd103edad52b95ba909b69046c39ba9cc94404 SHA-256: 00b02dcb8f68cf3efd5785a3d49c6cbde2c24480d9b25212629d5464948806e1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to prompt the user to make a phone call, a common tactic in callback phishing schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/doxigazibeworukobopakor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085acfba77d2---tadokivuvizexupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/7589919470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb58672490e0cd116023a2cc90e9f650/18073147117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iv69rmf9j1mdc499q9p5p9pmb7/56093466556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/84105956815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/12169406284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745d19a4a2a---98090194213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867ae8d1315---90462769044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088730ef2021---bewaditijivuditusutodijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298ee179616998806f1bd5ac827185ad/74740309056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/203665654960b5488dc0f58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/82027905137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086930693af4---rajagotonelizatubupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883dcc0e0cd---gazotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users//file/lipupolijolibajoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608612d4c27cf---16597145878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/60573933831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8cbd8b95a---54883745178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b527ed6ff82045b6a0b4a8c749643854/magotudijolutefezezekewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/ganukogitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/xulojifosodupevorifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c5531d2aa---sujutupofurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e10f6bd9caa2b30188a8f7f5f6ed38/8948163265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=libros+para+preescolar+2+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_off0000f0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C1 19000 bytes
SHA-256: 101d5b6d0317cbd8bf2778ebcf49378a35ba56e537f17a6051d401ec5e413f6d
font_02_sfnt_off0001395d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: d5d008956cf032312b1479ac9f641078d519fd3a801fd45c04dfef94c5feee39