Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c7c07f37657887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: afd6fc6a831f5c906c99218658ecf606 SHA-1: 622fec1e35099d0adad9963ca587e18ff464dcfb SHA-256: a7c7c07f37657887c5de180732cb5b60f76bd42fda6fdc867a886aa917f16c50
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of phishing and potentially containing a trojan. The document's structure suggests it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams and callback phishing schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/87566911372.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/9048487477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hetodon.com/fckeditorfiles/file/xomepavokafafefamivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/9305570829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/29453876718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/36887173118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/30331663573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/26636597845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/58788438251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/nebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06447bdef4d3a39eee8ab8693ce7e40f/33007276641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/tidopurogekelaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/98499317661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/rizaxodibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishingas.com/userfiles/file/5273687875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairfibers24.com/upload/file/16514452076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/wirusadozaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bcb00b4ad---1948221202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/dujanumagapaluperaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/93403268632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92878749414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a22e50af06---sotepoxudufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/xevudowovaxogumusuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/54235181968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/86980625731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=wentworth+season+1+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000da9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9A 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 5255139f12afa126e6ac327ac05546343e382203980a73fa3d12bb59d05df65a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7D 17272 bytes
SHA-256: d274da43d88b5359d1398327f9f7a6781fa0c6d38e35d738a76798592aabf4ad