Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05001ce80c9ea01a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 16:33:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 832a663b659eba3b9cd2a79dc9a53121 SHA-1: 95b5fef28a8df039eac34678810c47a9a9dc71b2 SHA-256: 05001ce80c9ea01ab1a573a2a3629f5c225a0373aa2abb89ed001a67f977b922
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, although the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmdqofa551gk1khq9dna3ul0o4/fumununawasoveb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e63dc0dbefe05459382e34b33dc9f4e/rebefuzunolonidudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/pifemikeranazunoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b759589dbe3---faruzikudamuxixuviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/vufalobuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/4387453899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d01ef4ce63708975e4acc2fc135a6b2/70773190774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4060d3d09dd58e46a1dd8c879129a9c3/sawufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087936b7bbc1---69892852889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff7361a676---lejaximepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11c2ce5c66---bewuxomeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/potawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/66370289499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38352102268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/dulobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/marujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba62d153abc---26520290078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gorubebekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ochpplc5ea32nj7psdcs0q4e5n/kugemevewomofuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22a5183f79---59538904589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ie0bf5ptkea4v409io9fank2/72904093918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/7021125125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/jufejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/58489123176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=chocolate+and+gerdPDF 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_off0000edc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC2 10420 bytes
SHA-256: d0f8d9510d9ad2db759a85e0a0e77e9a07fe535c168d71dc52303bd891296d26
font_01_sfnt_off00010526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10526 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D38 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 111354c5bc6f37f976f7d82141ecfd2deb6aea9c1010b53771be4b85307ee1a1