Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538a053801ae14c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 20:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a1f643d3625b201ff3eb5dcd712c8717 SHA-1: d6b16bf77cb11916fd90a23f6aa1d149eaf444b9 SHA-256: 538a053801ae14c89513dfce11fcebfaa2c92fa1f4beab6aea0f14561c18d43a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with tech-support or billing scams. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22fabd9b99---totokebof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/kuvibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cae362b379---tozomabekikenewuvegajina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/4165291933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a63fcf93e2bea7e6c31f9cc6e7c71e/sonuvisetilixuretizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/mejekuluwunafuzalikufuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd7c87509d---nimupebotipibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827c8531951---bafakovuteferofizofarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa41e1e011---73996904343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/89172274455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56f1420c9f633a039e3d89271e0fb6e/vutuwibobapulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5965d48ec7e445a3f9c4c408f5dc7d52/18573665326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e10f0927f---30345286574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f6b52f2c88a7a07d031ea70faf5540/damukozejaxiniviwebunoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609631ecf0f96---regawawusezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbbbc205e1---80039201449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96489485049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27065546468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdlc3dg0ol1nf443dsubomeefo/72407469167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=miller+trailblazer+modelsPDF 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_off0000ed04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001051b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051B 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 997d68dacd0112de7f06dc378c84b68e4ee170ce6634780fe231a0d8e83d76bf
font_02_sfnt_off00011d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 223e70156cefbc04828d8d7115df19b12091f7bb167067d758d71594522b8e5b