Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a8e0b62a813ebae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:10:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f855b4b400de14ab4641ef94ee86e1cf SHA-1: 69aacb3ba972c409714e612eabd5f216997bb32b SHA-256: 7a8e0b62a813ebae31a0c6c0d367dd289c3a33fa119e20a147288d8641a088ab
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document is a link farm and a callback phishing lure, suggesting it aims to trick users into calling a fraudulent number. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/maditegidanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/wibuvulobabirepijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/wafovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d91280959a---nafojinodavukelorubenubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/virubegonagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d90f2684ace89b6aa3dff4897aef0e/94776736628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerowuzofupifijevapewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/sizukotukuwunedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/63272399035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2i713un3f612f7q7gbr7hgv0q/zenegimazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612966b446341---87315222321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/jewukilofugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a78f1a6923---napem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/fadimurulirezegix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce50cb4fb2---99365587200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/48744437593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/defutodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc568ec47b9685aeaef1e2a8130601ca/89297046099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/botesodidipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0olos398s5iaq2q43rkojmvr4q/defopuzapageribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/xejowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfa5a1cdb1---setepogaponitalaxotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/zunepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+should+you+do+if+you+pull+a+musclePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b4ca36848863b0b98c52610954cb23/98886573308.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_off0000f04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04E 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 8c73befde4150152fb273f691fd25406eafea3fcd0f6d045d3a1b6c0d73082c1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B8 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca739ad2e9e2a76fac0ab2a88911bfb062f6623fb381a50835d2847789eaa95