Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e56a3a56e7c8888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 04:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5c9457a6e77e197e596e8818e9cf6762 SHA-1: 9b863b7a3b53364e3c20791400e956bea54a9398 SHA-256: 5e56a3a56e7c8888193983dcdc4a397053ae5869bd662984b193c5451610ded4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may be attempting to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing page or a second-stage payload via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7a3f0e698bd20970db98410f65643b/77296590973.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbee5b85b0---80454337704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/zanebekoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d66dd8a6648aca1a4a51a979aaf48550/dowezukokawovulipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/bujegirurusikavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/juxefolopusanaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kipelefuvigiwixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k96ogfln8bcls5rmd3r7098s2/66386516646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/66670286619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/24539409976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/93553284523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed75258df7---kejafatejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/jakanewipuzigapuzifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0ed44f8a3---87408245171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.eu/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///dexeraxikaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/xipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/gotuzuseruvukavejugiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608373e983939---29661732562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/45030115501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/kinaropozumujujiselasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/181015129160d966b4a95da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90197591530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/nomevipuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cancel+extended+warranty+fordPDF 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_off0000f959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF959 10504 bytes
SHA-256: aafebb480d3653429761f5104ebb3dbacdfc184839297d4afa36e5f90625fd33
font_01_sfnt_off0001116b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001297d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297D 17612 bytes
SHA-256: e7d6c4a2072871e798fac3777e849c43edcf2051e304d010f046efcd514b32dc