Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ed67be27c37a72e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:11:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 86fc71b1cb8732422a86ce34f9d3b09b SHA-1: 4ca57a5bec0bc01fa73c2edf9479227c69860a66 SHA-256: 7ed67be27c37a72e451dd718cd65feceb8902527d14e7ce0b0e3e835d92a85bc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure to initiate a fraudulent phone interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bharti+axa+two+wheeler+insurance+policy+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319879092cf79f9d815d3c6c4513f7b5/60391970815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656927e9525ffc37bb4b04fa5d0c0fea/jitaxuxurovagodar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/lelakapelibugepimegekezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7027f23903d52d06f1fa1f157ddf5c6/diwegubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/58955831059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d020f22123---2328236313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/gizaramajupalukiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f922b18b69---gosaxijuburasotajavilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/15579932875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/3451222793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ad41adedd---23992390653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28490368916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50a35172d5---65314009211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/mowimipefepojebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a85752619---50834712162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/tafujusigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798a5eb7d89---rujuzisawolajurixojumudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vomileja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c48b907e6736f3fe3c9a7ca3f998ec/repiredigoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2854cff3b6ea222f697aee533f1efdc8/rubedijubanogozawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bmmbdc44uei8ikk1sa9m3mk69/rifonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/deluwipidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a7be59b34b2fc40957229e9e82d16e/somifujakoxevotese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimigubellifoundation.org/clients/f/f9/f96c94eea877db95ad0a8b6fd709b1ed/File/dugepekumepedudupok.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_off0000deae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAE 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 4660ce9d42de260ce200b76d659a1e087958861adecb1d7de4efdf78a28fa2e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DD 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 4103687e40506e3f28560f539a0cac94c5687c0f8e0c2c3610e48d6d87ede8ab
font_02_sfnt_off00012879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12879 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1