Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b7cfc93665ddf7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ff0359476f9452344f7530fe673b605 SHA-1: 833715564f78f07923eee992265ad1df5c5e8c05 SHA-256: 7b7cfc93665ddf7af6d8179e8caeaf21aaa48bf03874fa70cead5ec732d6a684
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The primary attack vector appears to be a callback lure, encouraging users to contact a fraudulent number for issues related to billing, refunds, or security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/zelovemixide.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://curryleafharleysvillepa.com/hang/userfiles/files/wugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b4696e318b39fac874fd745fa832b5/23472977930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c552fc24f6e890d24c404ad6697b6957/kefusujolawogonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/80612592543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c8a626830d9b40fcb33b5a35f30c10/96362489701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cead26df4f5---37765244051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec45005d5a---47039401273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46e78dd2ca3cine04oo4ih07p/rugipuparilegojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc48d33a03---dixupenotojumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9117b74aa4---gosemotodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73365508412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gue95fs1qe49ulb99v8qdb6k60/88398162454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090786808daa---kolavojikatenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd125a7d27b36897ac13c532703a6feb/38106610478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/80372061232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mvea9k3m9hkap6b3232bnvn21/virabekiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=car+with+cigarette+lighterPDF 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_off000102ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC3 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 5e85a1f8f30e8c4fffe3aa463277cab4b469fe2e9903e30c45464976ca365160
font_02_sfnt_off000131f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F4 17896 bytes
SHA-256: c0a0f4b40b039aa6ef6a01c3d8a3f189d24359137a91ee7d9267bc5cc506cd25