Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 105b4a7493b62763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 13fef645472d01804b254da036b8b174 SHA-1: 96351d9669d1890cfee2ef4faa2bb77eeed7875a SHA-256: 105b4a7493b62763b3baceb69d214123adc3db0b6a3d97a8d27dd62212974318
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of a callback phishing lure suggests an attempt to deceive users into contacting a malicious entity. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or scam campaign, likely involving the download of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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) 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://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3519b7e6b54f725337ae4e02eea9b8e3/86714835504.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/zivijupasarogejewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88a54c8ea1---kutemolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/wiwexuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/tezikavarevilugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/76937860955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876a0c6dc66---99459188392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/jogisalakezitowido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3202ae937---26354204226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/23476743443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98202064959ba989755c6ebb23ae2abd/gifofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/gomusabila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd3854849e---21802300700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/muwekagafufanuxobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6d3cu7sbbqu0bq5injen28lfd/52332558439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f96192ec25bd66600ff71cd5ae9c798f/63072005132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee1814eefb4d690e69b73db519b4918/25289561578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/pexuvabuwuzegefiwanavavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a459411628fcaabb40c05ab833de14/80419124285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plr44omelb628kv7j370jblfhv/93630346630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87435c7d31bfda3f17a55d679e82949a/47586290754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3708f6f153b7d24718f55875a3c594f/26082746481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+money+on+gta+online+ps4PDF 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_off0000f64f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64F 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4eca6ac8e059f89bd0170fc2ce10b5c000e226e5c1bb9fa1970067204244ad
font_01_sfnt_off0001242c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C43 10968 bytes
SHA-256: a567c6a29a71aa5749a9882fc6f5fd074f59379ea907409ed75deff538ff3706