Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a7b5687c339c2c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 11:17:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3103c4a03e39326eaddc06a291ff5797 SHA-1: f20a2c02b295b32eaad26efa937bec2c1fbc49fa SHA-256: 5a7b5687c339c2c0446decc5b7f597dc16b30e0c2185f6336f5c969f8cb81058
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, including language suggesting a lottery, prize, or parcel delivery, combined with urgency lures. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware download pages. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing and potential malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ce4d19f52f704fa076a61458286a17/mavij.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bj6ahjgi5j61vlh16tkg4b744/finupuzesafezutofuvizoz.pdf
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/37875324526.pdf
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/67008121456.pdf
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/bafifivodajapufapigasoga.pdf
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/96051175616.pdf
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/sebetono.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9fa31252a---jafikipogadakawifi.pdf
    • https://motacademy.it/file/vurit.pdf
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/xepef.pdf
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/lotixotog.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be165d17277---49546678261.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e715586f099853ec8941c24be1fd88/90396306495.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773248e2dd5---tijezeju.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/somoduzewome.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e368f83dc90---pifebivebilevujofubajex.pdf
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/47103041782.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab7229cfa283304b881d66a9ebf366a/zukesobita.pdf
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368ead0cb6fe44e1d302eb67fd931f65/pupavugozoraripune.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59b300bbdc---4327724821.pdf
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/risujem.pdf
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/80311461089.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=does+nest+doorbell+have+to+be+wired
    • 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_off00010575.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10575 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d8c.bin
306d4ff02e46df77ace6f563641fa1700f35637657c45cfa32f362d163c1fb77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8C 10636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135d1.bin
c6264eb2e6e6c491b585e0bb0797d066cd14b7b07c86e7ad4b74622260f6f1b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135D1 17604 bytes