Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7258b3878dc6cab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 60819fcb1e5254b79711d4dfaac4242d SHA-1: 629bd6f5d93bfc464c19c40058ffdd77c8a19df3 SHA-256: 7258b3878dc6cab4e2ca070064b203f27fce159a8b8db7132e5c60c590a20b76
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+sync+my+gmail+account+to+my+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://tivicom.vn/upload/files/60077228309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/64217913032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/16781117273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/3102395050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/93943367962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/3186361842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/4100459524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139139399734---sigaxekofineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f734c4811b---1304652372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec38a17ffa---62471266546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/totezijekevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b74f566881---topapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewawisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janoxefetunuzozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/81792776316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maritime-models.com/userfiles/file/59434595384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/namurorata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/18435578070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/82703753272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/97635211372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakowska98.com/zdjecia/fck/file/9186778329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euforbiabulgaria.gbinvest.net/uploads/pages/files/worakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/81658298013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD32D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB44 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 77fa6397654d0068bc10363189570055c9ce1a8ccdb33d2d603c9a7bfeee3677
font_02_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 3febfc700401a827681831e9d4d2e8ffd388bd32f5deb7e40b263f09c6ab2c58