Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad38ed7a551493eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-02 10:09:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1ebc14218aa913139e3ed836dddb4cc7 SHA-1: 02ff4a44df6f404da1976d6a67c43393e3922a32 SHA-256: ad38ed7a551493eb6e77f9c878315c855cca41feb57e1151980509a48d0a31c5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It presents a scenario that prompts the user to call a phone number, likely to extract sensitive information or financial details. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d302552094cee88080873571b08298f8/nibujil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965e2293b87---lifemubalivejutobupozise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11886720598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395c5b4a4a7604cb2e1ab61600ab612c/63608451864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/gekedela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74c12c3418---32590692508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/91354179671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf48105eb3e---88755689817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/92099445171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a42d7189b7cb0a87aed3d50ac630f0b/75469934576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409fe55ae3e0676cddb1b37023f1c8ca/14520896367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e10192f830---38517266953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/42612263591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/zonikizogubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b7e88a970---fosigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f26dff134bad3252336963c0fe217974/nadunazafafares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.winsum.frl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51935140971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93478284f60d15d878a21bb7c0899e27/kavukuduvovuzewasojusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02ae3e5b9ff7c3e77d706c3ac6ac6b9/79258734075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/95849086974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210529121005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083703a77cbf---88888074809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finawutekevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/87570815143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+with+monster+energy+tabsPDF 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_off0000fb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5F 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 07e5d350035601ce12705073fb823a82d32ec419a5beb7c1a97c0e01565e2360
font_01_sfnt_off00012cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CEE 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 8833958a1cdeb6d780199f54cc86ebe493ce8b06c37283cba281d1803c1dd949
font_02_sfnt_off00014624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14624 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1