Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c0ccbc19ab81f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e6c400dcbb87f350ba5ae84ff87e02e8 SHA-1: 1b7a7d5457357381c66529f8c5459bf43ff664fd SHA-256: a7c0ccbc19ab81f106392869e5d06e087c0d677e0b787838e2f5aa1a4f5d2748
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the callback lure heuristic strongly indicate an attempt to deceive the user into initiating a fraudulent phone call.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f7d9527b8---21794952727.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efe104110b---7768632682.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d02fdcb2deebf4dc0b045eb644b57e/nugunaponugu.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b95d97365---ferowunojefomo.pdf
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/36150195225.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d2fb203cd6cc53996516722e297332/babopeluwun.pdf
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ace247497---zagevad.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8f6497a2c---77678568493.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20d8b67de---tizadofemeb.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902b93a1abf---nafoxejuvogikasuwipupusu.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba7e14bc3112590e9009ffc29a7a566/wudutuwafuwujuxekodavira.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p8nvp8licfo4bad0dnpp108uf/dobajededibikaxuruno.pdf
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/fowixadizu.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e58037ad70---zerukuwoxogolef.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0e8cf1d6a---66370636739.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=security+in+cloud+computing+research+papers+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_off0001351e.bin
335057b51dce4376a7721cb69993325f69542df0b53b44e10b8f39758045f16a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351E 18184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016534.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16534 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017d4b.bin
f59ea6a79f83fb4457b71e19c53f90430cef9b68a143a5fd3287d42ea19017c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D4B 11356 bytes