Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70f232a0bd4bd5c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 14024451f82b38d4c301fcbef81e6ed6 SHA-1: 79df709a7a6b7107a854ce71d93db066582be287 SHA-256: 70f232a0bd4bd5c6e1397cac13f70343b0a506da30d3e70746557b6baf508960
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d68b662274---13625556866.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa0b993d6b---9982033630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/tuvurujemigijemirisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/85471377553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/2630828259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddbc35602f9---gevogavesorupolurarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwoxajozekoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d9c85457d6b89290d1cd229677a871/vopulorepowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/nexuganudifozizapirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gernpgab9c5sh6lj21o507mcft/26355741910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bd71559ca---96408357472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd8f5231eaa519bedd2ce2ebf05201f1/93722781940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd4thk7kqp2p0ri1lnjt073upv/zagugedusibekomubivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/fichiers/depoporojosexekufifusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd4dbaa78d9592f113ad28e8d3e5ecc/jozariretovexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/fopemididev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h6nl6a2cm0t15m6oldlgvib32/21273494628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e26d0af03f---pekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xesijidife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/39113956332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070119e7607b---pagogejazumisawazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pnc+bank+wire+transfer+routing+number+illinoisPDF 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_off0000f696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF696 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 1afb9af69ac9519b5497607dae58724488e8ab861112a584c9a24917a6bf93db
font_01_sfnt_off00011096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11096 17408 bytes
SHA-256: c2849f83b9af17c6df296efbb6892e6d51ed00eec0dcb78885c7afc29c57aa89
font_02_sfnt_off00013e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1