Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 502038514d5fc69c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:23:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 06ff256a577824c93d2dc06a1449c55c SHA-1: a4b9603c9eef12dae8b76d9f195ed928615c5e67 SHA-256: 502038514d5fc69c34923f3223c02314497e42b98a363ad76dfd45c9530d82cd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents used to distribute further payloads or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56e9a7f586---filulusigilakona.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818ffa1e322---70903086617.pdf
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4988971c57ed5fb21827cda487d7693/93428280336.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66c78a1dfa090d94ed4ba6e4901aac31/fuzapegitaris.pdf
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/zadaja.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868db2cd323---vogoludamedizak.pdf
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf759312b74a26147c32b6199666de7/32973990716.pdf
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/20870781208.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/63318944578.pdf
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/56133735241.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2ae1d532a65309c62a5d9cd5ca58c9/viwesavaxurotirawux.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfa5438399---julerujojidonoxiw.pdf
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/96717144055.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81555f14a8---9167197320.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078489a4f532---kafoleluxako.pdf
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/jarokuzogiwido.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qefl75j0q749vkduqp1r378so/rekakodubesowokogo.pdf
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/16640085300.pdf
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/81760814188.pdf
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/77161229900.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074190e2bf62---nevajosaxozuragus.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd695c3e69---92765116794.pdf
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/99125766281.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=student+health+services+brock
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d255.bin
ebfedc3e2a5f5659b6da5fe7b28ba9269710a4f76d028dc153c7143f24703020
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD255 17132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff4b.bin
6ad88ade1ada449edd83689158a55170af16c7d9e5d77b17ac37a0f6a5cd1d56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4B 10940 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001189e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189E 16792 bytes