Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7a23b0c2b57388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:56:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8f484fb7189a7f67ab953800b97c409e SHA-1: 1fe94192dc6ec34b63e543cb4e6e1e9d7beaf879 SHA-256: 4b7a23b0c2b573887d731861b16bbef8d9a743f289c8eea02359851cd4d3165f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The presence of invoice and callback lures suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading further malicious content. The embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=please+bear+with+me+today PDF link annotation
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f6e720636---buzaxubakoram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/55679360638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/zesumokeninedutizigalono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fce090c7a---mevubofuxopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91fc397aa---tugazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070acea9d18b---93862167132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/19720623848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/somifuxaxokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c78a53f5---25473567353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3f4ba566030ebba8fad19f4387c16e/93018911305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9fff43c1319b6d780453a935c3ddf4/wajepulovobididugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7ab79453---27082077373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/xifuxaposikutulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dea54d1f2---79158672622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701594c6d06---64974659788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/33158192768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/linufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/36532616112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef35071d3c---55054275461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/93496348570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/mixozoxidukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/farisudebufibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE874 17292 bytes
SHA-256: a52247f5ad3137f2d3c5c8294618ecf721c91430cff00bdd740ced78b4b11ccd
font_01_sfnt_off00011536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11536 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 39ed93e8f37b79811cd71384a1f16f47f6b3dd65da521ce418fe34350097a0b6
font_02_sfnt_off00012e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001461a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1461A 22100 bytes
SHA-256: 79328f47f1bf0ccabc5e595441ffaa145455087dc527ebf44d0c5ade112a4d96