Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c37a6ae6837bf00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:32:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0d76d8998011682139d27bc9c6311603 SHA-1: 08b9d81375f99292221377b0ea4cafb320234948 SHA-256: 7c37a6ae6837bf00995b594ed02fc8a8d3033a5967b96c95cfb91b94b665de06
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further suggests a malicious intent to deceive the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/83758327642.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/71971596511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cc7f06743---94688150566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/kenenifefusazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/58464733492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/63099475302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/87593031236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f57da8f4e6---xatarebixogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/77512542061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45e351892---semivowobanujepiriwewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/8217343742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021871114279499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b8cg4kp7jvbl3vl16j07es27/titugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46b6d833a3---kixujovaniran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098aa5423e8c---sanobotixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609835d171af1---darelalanidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa5ffbdc17d---37092524999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/32789047396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/butevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed801df0bef8c873d4aa4615ab4ab72/ditadexalazaledetefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/24980652705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b12d0de84---56398538080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/85020291770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f0c81ea66d3abdbab5e257c9ae473d/sebobusiwadozemomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85288148005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=verizon+fios+channel+lineup+2019+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_off0000d47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47B 17940 bytes
SHA-256: a9b4b6f8d18bc42377232dfd16db3c3040cc030d339064dbe4bade8a725c2fc3
font_01_sfnt_off0001027b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027B 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 4a3a1519af0370201517cf09a6ae57184f47b2e5cdcf370a4478a24c25a07842
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1