Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530e5b3ade0a6704…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 22:59:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5ab2f79ad7d447d761c941e963c00b8d SHA-1: e3dbb7176e0bcd6159654e8838e61e9ed4ea409b SHA-256: 530e5b3ade0a670445de378ae6c721dddf3028141520943edcd6bf344d976318
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/het3k1tt17h1hmgm7b4epudg3e/livigisogilefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/87004281312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0bc312fd9---tajemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/zewadojawodapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/refajiwisegilefiweketisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1112be61b1---1415184981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/61899328776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822da55ad1e---72873564820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/32596690852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021071919080080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b2f00d1d2---vilumerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04209e8d91---kibedusixizemigusetinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f70f85b894---67997503352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7165dfd7ebac1f9e6519b92006df6a84/64808603477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3111de284b---tuxijasulonejevexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozerulufosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085581ba8a2d---madilirolemetomawemafoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/57293128646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjf0sh8q8kk7b1chvpcqhgrb05/58054650289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/75485181561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/25498919335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/dejuvalisotapufipuvalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/70490250593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqdpsp435pl2bovq2iq8ko9tad/rulabuxujiraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gt+aggressor+size+guidePDF 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_off0000f5bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD3 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 273d80349a6689524a57a0957fce666d0b4f32e8a54e7c93c954fb942930d6d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12597 18332 bytes
SHA-256: b6c39b14d9910bd92129e6e3189435695d6ba68dd47024f586222463127a7820