Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aca92c0e6787b68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:32:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f9b38b13285c437f54c015a3ac30f523 SHA-1: 67a00350a27ab8d8c71b6a02272927c894255563 SHA-256: 7aca92c0e6787b68b1ab5ec01241dc98eb85709a2ae9d1a54c5faa63d280f084
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611006d9058c1---bosus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/67506987437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/47133039979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/likupobegelawadutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c7d6e386c---11063431002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/241a0dcfacb4cee542775e660489c2c7/93570306873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ec64e4d274844753e58a2de99953a0/49599213296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6monvqrfjfmu1iigqakijcpi7/8187727646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/9102964430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowballet.ru/userfiles/file/74395844479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/83217110046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/11734738147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/lumuzefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://full814.com/upload/files/sijupamavuworaxijeguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/jomukoxadavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/53625680100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/828e01b5209b2902117640c87d57af35/xejusujoritekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/reruwutuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54fef61003---zojugokasalijadoseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b005eab7985---sivovejetebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f05623cc7e3e583d9c15dcd39d65a508/pafagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/gilakujomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/goxufari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/gimevedejibadanafiloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5c1b8e23e6ce505e25e146952c8fa5/86592639817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=scholastic+comprehension+skills+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_off00017e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E91 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 1deaff2702e860dc795a1e50cbbce2287a544072f1ed0b2b582aa013d3816186
font_01_sfnt_off00019815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19815 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab08e0c71a91f93c23c72c5e23598dee1bd900fd0f9aecb145279d814a9f08c
font_02_sfnt_off0001c89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C89E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1