Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a58e18b5f2d9fce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 21:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7f92ea94a81401a029e3fe30526a4b83 SHA-1: 3888694843d17716683f70b239ffaf79920fb221 SHA-256: 7a58e18b5f2d9fcea1ae74796de02f0f35c4a69dfc04b055b1f9f5320000bd80
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of a link farm and the use of compromised CMS uploads indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900a36680c1---91345482377.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a0e8a98e9---nakoregadozirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9666e10a50fc7c607a0416a208f7043f/9133233532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/defadovoxafofuvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8434d80890---41044411755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/depafuzofarekisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/woxiwokuzitiroxosakeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v74h0c5k2lt13hlm9vlo8enfj6/2555557886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d694764cad6---80668082342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ac8136a9521---80645534262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/zisexomewopuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab2e9a95e8---22551166302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/pedefafovisobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/12409413073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klassn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31060419495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///gawuxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/53656428254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d46d7f30c---61131906961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50515485151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/mibufezuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af61557afe2---19883934813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tuvs7g1gd87hr65jop7as5691/13631221823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1aa5f6901f---jakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pass+permit+test+nycPDF 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_off00010247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10247 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 4149ce96860ff0303b2004f00cde08ffbdd5447aabac1d76967d9d7c4e23c2db
font_01_sfnt_off000130f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001490a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1490A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: f432be632cd9a705f68a8657c9586ff8db67172199874239e28a141efeb0d831