Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a57232660d5b43c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 08:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a940831daf96d3514e6c081433752f8a SHA-1: 1b928aeb06f9532266a58d011774d5e2957e1f81 SHA-256: a57232660d5b43c82255ce02f0a85a4750eed101c99938c41225c5265cd45744
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's part of a phishing campaign, including a password-protected archive lure and callback phishing pretext. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs and link farms point to compromised WordPress sites, likely used to host or distribute further stages of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+it+mean+when+an+iphone+is+icloud+locked
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bf899323653b1517ebd74533034daa/xiremu.pdf
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/28155609533.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/8308488825.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700a4c1a1ca---rutugizi.pdf
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb6457981b9f9b0b78590834e401cc7/68752043490.pdf
    • http://built.lu/userfiles/files/29785936693.pdf
    • http://hornets88.com/clients/56662/File/popikajife.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c695e356e---gefamixirokino.pdf
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c326a581aa38345c49704b3ad28e0323/zidonodebowavizana.pdf
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/53087485158.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1a70b946a---60839316829.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b36f97275---52571422882.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5b157e28af24b417d58164f8d79dd5/57647290934.pdf
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/91493100862.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/tijiwimiwikawonoxozufibu.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dcb9ffe8ec56c3f1d7176261775bdfc/71021437961.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb2816d87a2ecf08e52b9f4538b2a89c/tirimif.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5e7d2222e---83610265362.pdf
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/47363808336.pdf
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f5ae22fe---tibigakosa.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fbec3c5cb---14441479375.pdf
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73077580599.pdf
    • 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_off0000f635.bin
c2ae7431461cf849ca081df55f1e361a6c058a5bc2ad839bb53f9936d22bfacd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF635 17352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012380.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12380 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b97.bin
f770066485285df8a81eb0476a75cb9ba49ef5832cfed1fa4f15bf75911ec540
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B97 10948 bytes