Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7017c47856f6802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 20:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 759b046f073c07e0db5843be9dab2ad3 SHA-1: e2ffdf0d2623a9349a584dd3d8dc8886dd80f31c SHA-256: b7017c47856f6802daa05d8f7da34e07a47df14fc5c6ef10f416b5d7852e0656
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute or host malicious content. The presence of urgency and callback lures further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/517091849.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bef1a2182ea---88115717554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb85247620c0ecdffa306b99ac15f68b/guzupawurupewidike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/76053700573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ge5mv3nkb4hf5fot0oebgqah8/dujimopakezowagokavebezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53m21lrdvpgl2urstri59b2f4f/20550263240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/75517845312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/95948015843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/71331953893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/50440302034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add2e3721ab---74562644054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0p4vfjaefi6vejd67mlg1kttg/ruzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161049f42ceec9---88831987432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/sizawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e91135678---bebisadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/bebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/mikiwusewaxisuwogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmifdk76qkj5lrv2mp48vjtu5d/65703004428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/rewigakukosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/zulapazanatopejibulosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9l693h60rsjfvg9nfapvlg0vr/dapumegafijisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8811d0e949---surudajaxusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=betking+agent+registration+formPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF376 17724 bytes
SHA-256: bebd1c6e2d1004969e71df3654364d48a42c81a22d9720cb75d8a546df62795d
font_01_sfnt_off000121ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CE 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3502a39a28e08473e34a9912952d3e5f9047cfee9b631db2ffa31e14ee1c51
font_02_sfnt_off00013a89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000152a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152A0 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 18e53c37160e516ddc482e682e64c1ea66e51c203dd843c96fcc918d725d20ff