Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f4e92cc3a9d2494…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 21:44:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0099aced956d4823234869b87497f4ab SHA-1: 6c67e4130ed78946739d441ca6a06e17d09f3330 SHA-256: 7f4e92cc3a9d2494e6fc86ef7e765950cd891f177cd05da60693efb18461076e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites and a link farm pattern suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically indicates the document is designed to prompt the user to call a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/68510543075.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8a6001006e5a6c3d65ffed14573051/seduninigijuvidamekuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807bcec25bf84d07132b56477d78d366/ragakobapobowegesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a7e2e418e6---ridimasalagilizimemikator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210809080454_ruynk3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff6b352c475a66d925d213e93759a05/bokedomojedakesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/44574012495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210805_183127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5433fc736e---48501408757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cbe8c21aa---52892317912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/vudukarabexexolujemevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c3eb0a16a---77053950990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0631dab091---68965462134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ef460a9d9bf4d6507b71c2d47186d2/dowabamajipixavamupadopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/lebipojepozujadupeladepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/samorelidewuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fcd8ae970---37013630138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa3af4bb83---52075033736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c46c992c8---werudopezivixurizideku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96221200884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/vinudegidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/widuluzapimuxisulomakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4cf29931e3726d3b79cc7193399c6b/22568646210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+adt+doorbell+cameraPDF 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_off000184c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x184C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00019cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CDB 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 4ada03ac18b76a2915d36ad1d9b46b3b8deb3097485a43fe80ea1fe56265edce
font_02_sfnt_off0001b501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B501 18980 bytes
SHA-256: e3c4c43f3c77e04303612624dade032a84b92c99e622cc29a733e5d119d33f71