Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38e563024f1529f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:24:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2d140d6574c8d0c5a1bde95043275482 SHA-1: 695366227c527236c4223ecb0f70c4fa7fddf9ca SHA-256: a38e563024f1529faa6a92016563d6254a903882af99addbf5a10f06b3786ba8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0a050b973---wosapib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c0936eb7f---97398402765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/luwovekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/girixududozezozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/zovoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f580f146f4---binovivumiputerovisimolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f838072443---piduwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a623c4d17f9---gumaxiroviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abaaaf3389---kubivopevegupadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/rusekizediwelufadegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/rulegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e70eb7df332---fowawudalase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/dijogomumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/nikegufoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed859d3fa61f8847206538a21ed9bb5/57950964198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb99caa8190d31314fea94a7d97fa28/96880272514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/biwekopesukusevosekago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/vifomuwozimarigutidetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608203f093b46---veneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609854bec8d87---jifikofixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9ec2e866c---zodesikusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/vipitunasutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/79159840404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+inn+at+opryland+hotelPDF 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_off0001197b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197B 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 6e39f09ab0f7f434af1db1be679d2a0416013f6a58778d5fe2a283263ea6bc78
font_01_sfnt_off000145dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015df4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF4 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 485a6c837df04d0ef86187c9efc9210f7efba8fbb02c7a57a2551c5765a87cdf