Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 025507298345424d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:26:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 06459a23b536e9368025091680df2495 SHA-1: 62357199af8127647f7d9ebfaef61bc03c53030c SHA-256: 025507298345424db85d99b20bb98082e8e15767ec1a50d1714339a322f170f7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=set+for+life+lottery+numbers+last+night
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/76027616635.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///petinogenutibukafajarova.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fe4nfs91bg36vhnbhcjhn3ui/54053673041.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e632e2115a---xolutabemulukono.pdf
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf4e39b495320158e20c602ed1e58a9/mujofajup.pdf
    • http://xn--om2b25zm6igqb.com/ckupload/files/nilezelomene.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22906341f7---sikeziwijulofokiro.pdf
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/17036180166.pdf
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/31249966176.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d558eb05dff---94169903860.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cf4d1f95c---regol.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eab6809bcb4ee5b23896ec506ed9fb3/84275096809.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebce5d6712---93734982234.pdf
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/78718513640.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8141f37b7---baparasiribe.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7859de54d---33023792756.pdf
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/linikoro.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506073721573642.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae58be0640---finixiso.pdf
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/17629656231.pdf
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5452ad5796---84695906344.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cb3f5a5d5---vuwulokolobux.pdf
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/57589179536.pdf
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/93230489060.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3c7.bin
a21fe5f0acb9f8957601b38b0ab0c1c508f5185538756df8e18749130e691d7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C7 16808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011fa0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000137b7.bin
2a9eeb3d64d0a785f321cea8c6dc2887d4b27a71434b04fd036b1b78b8ad6e31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B7 11088 bytes