Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e58e8df54559afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d6abec08154afe9942ad99126d06db24 SHA-1: 737a84c38e425bae3f2ca79a6adc15d38b89291a SHA-256: 8e58e8df54559afed96c4b3f3dbff7bb7c6d50f005daedc4db4de350d53aaa7f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or scam attempt. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or callback phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maldives+honeymoon+package+for+4+days PDF link annotation
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/kozexifoxamigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/rolutukebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c6e78b8d7---87601687513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/56994535973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/kifusanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3086cccf65---22743384544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401ac27f0e7625c50d5339ba411cf034/91409722667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757991219fd---95483613419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/nimodulobupedasepinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976944efe52---dubutabawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/gewukaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quincy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55893514945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r8fsrmgb2ahli9hbg2te31p2g/pitusudinefetutafula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094dfc13ed15b3c6a69fb28d87f3bbc0/80699995354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/74785725627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/71182971214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8nl397llksdir0v876uai9t4e/5638516441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6sh3d6v26ok8h4s714gq8sq90/24725586885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21869896846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/56510692206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06u8p83vlhq52rj31k8otq5pv4/14406408959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5737a05043---guzerapizimodigimomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f45da65d35913185918e0ea390fe0d2d/rufomabafupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/fafinopewetinepobi.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_off0000f0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B3 11312 bytes
SHA-256: fe293259c9175540c9e961e61c317fba63088d8ac20c2046152945c38b7e2f3f
font_01_sfnt_off00010ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F8 17384 bytes
SHA-256: a2e39c85fa578d0d30605079d128306ef1ae669fa347cb2bd0b30f44b944facf