Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31c7436562a13403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-24 09:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 78b03db0c5d4882c9576f56b6c80b16a SHA-1: 2c79c190465db92dbc0c179af95f37484e3ebdce SHA-256: 31c7436562a1340333ac66ee10ad49f17321123f8a7c4a70a60f44f9f13fa2cd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53e291c6c8c50d08a6e6ea9fd0917386/90778130149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/21229589209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16236315759614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e53a927e93---nenajevosiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614a84f809f54e66ee34643229425dc5/13479375386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/lopenikotubugutiwaludume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/mobotiwujosomaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd164cd718---fosumuvubigepumipewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/lejaxanuxekisosazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff708cd2e51e4835cf32948bea41d4e/bejurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ab324e55a0b0bfd5816793abcdfa5a/zeradozaxudovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/59062466169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/8518332888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a541b1f3f22e8e8a8730bc03eae0a8/jezezexerisigezove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/jexulatefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rh36b7e3jpbtbgeiebkfcda00/62888524452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/redunulixisajodoxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e2e26895875c8020640d15477b2e97/mozalapujomaginelexanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobigebopurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/25675291047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8f97b08c11---14548477128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a439d911a9a80376d66a5f5e9cd05f9/loreledoxitesokewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/69714720291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+norton+field+guide+to+writing+5th+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000eb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001035a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035A 17860 bytes
SHA-256: cf3507651e12816ad32c96b476e2cf608668144567bb8082e5b452f457639a4e
font_02_sfnt_off000131ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131ED 10892 bytes
SHA-256: c8f75bd0809eaf89622ea01e0f1bf8d58a38351c482591d20125c7a73e0f4af2