Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d07f679a7355258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 10:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a316561050a8b107868ef54c546b04fd SHA-1: adb3381b949e9b8491716adde628e92ea0905093 SHA-256: 7d07f679a735525827d45c2e660723ebfaa20e60b9462f83835443d08c7ca00e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, directing users to potentially compromised websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45034b6f90c74686e044b879cc31c379/rebikatarewu.pdf
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/69025772070.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48020f095ddba361f5e52d5c2aa96130/10925562836.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b61067ac4b209d57cf898daac3a9df9/roposuraximexuxotanuxuna.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb9961eb5e---10806137574.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/texeladasipamosagu.pdf
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/gamaratipabukirek.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727704b7b94---77928523788.pdf
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/zudapa.pdf
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/77923620492.pdf
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokadu.pdf
    • https://tisuputih.com/contents//files/97223757193.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hapr8vkajfnmnd1m6529ooe485/32145895005.pdf
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/vivigedemogifukekodifu.pdf
    • http://timapools.com/uploads/files/mogonurasuwutele.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2cv7473eikft9vurhe15vg80t/tomapemoxarelulorobexijo.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfsn8tcttnms67peqh3k4f73s0/34042858023.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df933ad1ef---12775111988.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6b4649035---nutatagukowekefodozomu.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ac1b1b2f57d40930b75c6b39a71e02c/vejopufapepibato.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ef7c7ab6a63d666f1e7526db499964/71494855881.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55ea083d538d3e86521c3d9add1937f/gewigotusabukumofovaxibum.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=artificial+intelligence+russell+norvig+solution+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed50.bin
31828119f5333a428cccc3f17dc8df942942af04c41635ea836bb562b62b2d74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 18404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e49.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E49 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013660.bin
8814a5717582f8982aebdeb1851cd7ce64d0972ab4c29f1511003a6798675f90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13660 10828 bytes