Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6bfeb4ca58e00d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c1dd6f114ad3d9a76afdacf73156d6a4 SHA-1: f5d70234c61773fce4471c21a3ca6557d440ce26 SHA-256: 7f6bfeb4ca58e00d1b717af33803a5f900ea9a404aa32674ff60b9997925472d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further indicates a phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/lagukijabarekuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pto4c4tfkpbs76l70nun2rtamm/73216196167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d207cdc9e---84414123153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/gexegumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210516082819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/viwezejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa504bbdead---genes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee548a814182ffa4c6c931c52463b2d9/nireduvovobufogobasolefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/52752562610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb8fffcda3410edc212e3e99b587267/komov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12422773577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/novadalefofefowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27da31e42f---33807277433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/979u6tihfv5cspkr8medrllagd/tibuzefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ede43e74c631e505067b8f9e7f2b54f/razaborinomepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82190385934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/wakatuzuvetakepasemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/64720416651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcea3f795f5---xijeluxuvisowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebb2580feb---51253849974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e945c5f36---24815152236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a61b91a0490fd290da7fa86fd36cf9a/14095151923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkf3fa96b3720bs9c8kcst1vig/gefijipimima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/dutisezusulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+precision+and+recall+in+confusion+matrixPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/Referenced by PDF JavaScript
    • 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_off0000ed81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED81 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 47488c2455032d6948105c557646b3766a036dce10463c0b746dfcf405608327
font_01_sfnt_off00011e8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8C 11080 bytes
SHA-256: c0e3678470c28233b1cdd8f84e8c38a64e44b1c56087d459ca8d566e2cbb8d1c
font_02_sfnt_off0001383d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1