Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f37665445c5643…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-23 16:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1020bc940ff3a7a98b4b3f9131231a1d SHA-1: 8fd1c926d5b9bfba99f0e7f8375481979fd1ba08 SHA-256: 56f37665445c564312e1535793bf73b8edc4ec190c7f2994095add2798768952
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with malicious links or content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6109c8e931b41fe72d6dc91e0b98f47a/fanekofifonapozizigitaje.pdf
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/9579859777.pdf
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8gfdc33g34m6n3j3m8ulvb00/fukapixelasuzaj.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed898ca11c---45180916808.pdf
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f80695024a---86382749669.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/2187298106.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc745dd784---taxodogumam.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac604726be613a1cc4ff91f97b97dbd/30272350080.pdf
    • http://wahibluedevils76.com/clients/5/55/55d7338a7abcce318bc847d7f34994f5/File/kinudazoximeriki.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ee4e6874---worujudotumupoxoxutoboxow.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/on1ln5656upee04sq6i8ikvb47/12996845872.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721faae5032---86468147065.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098844aa6c82---79139685551.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7a52c4226---widikutefesozisot.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=jnana+yoga+vivekananda+pdf
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/65792285012.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000120e9.bin
6a514428e3b1014ab955790b3a864d1b47722c12ccffd212c86c437ede1ca44d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E9 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001328a.bin
3f8886c5752d345fcd51353c2f23df3ba0a5caa9a0b91c6ad86fc041f91b7ebd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328A 11724 bytes