Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a358dc85d105d206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 227ba1fcca4592406a0298827832d1da SHA-1: 325748f3d20f33e90d7949d1e21c070d6fc81f58 SHA-256: a358dc85d105d206a17da31e269eb6c5692287ecab331919b833260c636520f0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a phishing pretext, likely aiming to trick users into clicking links or providing information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b529b37db---wekazizugi.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518084804687553.pdf
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/tipanawufinek.pdf
    • http://mamnonlittlesun.com/upload/files/tifikuwowixulodumedabu.pdf
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea7c3c762370ebea331f285ab8b6a61/3232780296.pdf
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn1890kgeg446l4q8c4gekm010/duxexawumalosaj.pdf
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/55634342575.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf00e2d1c90---tireduliwojitagosivigi.pdf
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/gixibixukaguzibexojo.pdf
    • http://siembra.me/uploads/files/46378507438.pdf
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/xulatekatosaviwevupoze.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87771d0499174f3282d3b10d80fb5de0/wogizararalital.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cfb5349f7---vuzofilotetuta.pdf
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210624191314.pdf
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/70848451661.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2ab283034---jaxomerudaf.pdf
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e527s26u5jdmpj6pg0l61m0iol/90259843308.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd54f73adb---vovozezoduseboka.pdf
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfrdiocaprfq2sgogus46j45i6/valivowuwuvuvelemutok.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606fcdbf3f371---44696055446.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da410ef5b7a61d2df806d68aa7e47a5c/93836792994.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mchenry+county+circuit+court+case+lookup
    • 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_off00010423.bin
e378b825baa7b5d9ce88dc7340e6c41e829e26e197d939ad305337f04d4e7105
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10423 18652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013535.bin
ce476f4f0663400fe3d278d7edc528371a452eae6842eedcf9b6c5908a6dc873
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13535 10772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014dfd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DFD 16792 bytes