Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79040660eeedab0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18c07cc1e584d948e28199aa73de1f97 SHA-1: 3e72b89cd008fc403227d4a9e1c78829c8ada1e1 SHA-256: 79040660eeedab0f81abacaf1d32336c21668e1da6ec49e4bef0a3cccb3fabf4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number for fraudulent purposes, consistent with tech-support scams or billing fraud. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, suggesting a potential distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a58ba1795---rusuredadanojowutixoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dde46430d85---61092583822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26a172fe2d---49599252126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072560f6e02c---tejupudator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/gimozikotivamirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kuwavepitogizubobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6353f702a300f8efb57e4bc696a5b5df/41383451272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46744117000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97168201fe3dcde97b782e7040d42f04/farusupanaleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/23313663447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/61459420455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/29452071238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/6579783312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp//files/vatamekogepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a258911a61e6cf50b68f91013fa666d2/gamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/48571351755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/34082376257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa29d06219f336646ecc088996bff01f/66239167606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac63be441---34578601412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59384906520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635071c806759cee98b46bf25dbc3880/jezako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=experiential+activities+for+teaching+multicultural+competence+in+counseling+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076139854797---75680318602.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_off0000e278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE278 11320 bytes
SHA-256: d3df5364bf82c1b39f6b6d79954719668b4d0664a9dfac5c76c0b629fa9b8ccd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB8 19796 bytes
SHA-256: 600b48aa57418c1328686a7fb9f270cc226ec6c7cdff1da265aa4bfcaed8748c
font_02_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1