Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a440cb13289303fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:56:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a8ce001ff5352b0c05fd5e5b95f71cf6 SHA-1: b1abdf0c4bc35cac9adf28bb00ba17c81037f414 SHA-256: a440cb13289303fbfa3bc4a1e87addaa35de143d88cba56d4b75802e19b67733
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a phishing pretext, aiming to trick users into interacting with the provided links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728dd640654---50230330544.pdf
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/45210830532.pdf
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/581d36bb1e3d7d76f2ee3a1ebf0a6820/rovafoxe.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070402b8c273---rifokukida.pdf
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/fibakit.pdf
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b52daf0dc9eb87cffe48354c44f154/zitokux.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb56ca24d13---juredanunidizab.pdf
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///89052847253.pdf
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/lupeweginifozofebataj.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302e2224a8f10b78116376f6def255e5/wigefurel.pdf
    • http://neonyazilim.com/images/Media/files/21221880809.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb8ef78dd9---rewinabuzuxagukem.pdf
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bir6hr6c1bn0f7adngqnf3bms/semikaguxozodogunifuvez.pdf
    • http://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/63547167083.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3869734e6b---99038978449.pdf
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/61191005316.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000c8ca1ffb9f13503720976f3f116bb/91519963414.pdf
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dujigesemoxawurik.pdf
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/muzimuwisusulofepe.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de20b1bf58a---kuboxujukarafu.pdf
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/15506572525.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48de526775d8ffbdbe9832be9ad91bab/vopif.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b478ee8275e---guvozadot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=two+party+states+for+recording
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8cb.bin
bb352729c79a2fdaef1373bb0fbbe4bd5fc4a3a04f7b50b3be185f4d2cf0cb6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CB 10912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010216.bin
00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10216 16140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011792.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11792 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012fa4.bin
313251c349c951ee276ffa3c11c1cdb5aca3f875e2ebc105cc63114b295a5dfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA4 16920 bytes