Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 720b7a20d32f58ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e13d98541ea12fd86f2cf1b6a2919782 SHA-1: 6b616b77940fff941f79985868cf6b1fca43c72d SHA-256: 720b7a20d32f58ced6113859e6a65215d82999e0de8124afb486dd49939a4e23
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in phishing and tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f94a49e1ea53e28ed192799808ff50/67556970590.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4331ebd402---680877504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/jimoxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8249b842a---damexagotifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/butisodugozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07027ce6cbed64dcdad281a2369da96b/25214694044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/kobofubawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/48389391168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/52104417046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29u5tn5r11i7f525ncgosdmfqj/62454159791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/41032354379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conviviodihera.it/dati/upload/file/jilokupivavesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/zapunemiruvexoroxidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/41335719008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fcaedc0aa---2564460305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786a1b56090---burobebufove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24dbd106fd757878c6ac616b78a47d4/26989440932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--spreewaldpension-lbben-9lc.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/kopixopuvulajisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/kolezovilegoguwiniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923b5a10749---14199252916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e563ac23d4e---75123265435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyroglobal.sk/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tiwekofikurazugifabipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/resajexaxoranumataxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/14113751948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=streak+retinoscopy+technique+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE666 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 04ce1bfaeb69c9c27b6b821c252396734a2ade86e15338bea266a50827ad830a
font_02_sfnt_off00010052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10052 18124 bytes
SHA-256: b133883be1721b298c8de3321c9345b3db2ae5e940671cd8078dd5be0faa9d31