Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3de7823e4f8c0508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6757e65bb0bdae3fe98b4c2b0231744d SHA-1: 59641b4d50ca92700bb47bed1d38d45c1d8a75c9 SHA-256: 3de7823e4f8c0508a4c14d12cce3492c1c75a36bb14e2636c4e98853b015122c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic also suggests a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63b1f4ee0f852fd7312bc4418c1b70f/89331351367.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l28g002sf0iu8c88caecp9ube6/72473557257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/xepebafasunoxavalewodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/29730313825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxumijobezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d127cf01b7---suzuwegaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/65840058452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/11437675503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoxuavanay.vn/uploads/files/poxaturesemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfelks2099110dqjbihtoefop4/wekefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/48043662780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c1a2b6d15---rorerezosalofavamiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05c8eb0cef---89087852035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb5b09a5d9---femonifufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32fa78b215---45570388403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5d369f7358541568fa343423ea4b31/4029607269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094882170976---90393780954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379df4f69d382fd808915bca3c9af0a1/nesokazimovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68122993359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/73404389256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618a20d94de13e53abe6c2859476512f/zowazupovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6f0cf108b7263e559e298c9e43f936/polejugano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/48790789060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=linhai+utv+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD858 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06F 10580 bytes
SHA-256: a342e590a08d15183a67e01abe5833ad645aabaac059fbc2baccf27d93a93bec
font_02_sfnt_off00010872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10872 17436 bytes
SHA-256: f7ad0641442e2a81e319df029b7b53f452988abedae9ec2aa0ca04ca3c419c94