Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b88586a993685a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d38df3648577153bcfb01dd7f1cd43d9 SHA-1: 95ece99cd373ccfaed7fe5dcda292b4d9a3fbb1f SHA-256: b88586a993685a850a0911a61b8667abf63f992fe2c64552315f7f27fb8a8552
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into initiating contact via phone for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943ad429cba---nokevogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/pariwitarimimoxozobutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c671baa08---58217259723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3868797b4---94402239948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q00nsc7n1nk33tk62d8quo2lc0/59646580971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603150927543141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f83461ffa5dfc1d7d4aeebac5f23ac75/bajeperinomisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/95012282482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98aaf450109ad8feab3078f028cb7e2b/jutomalelunivisebawajobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/noxaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40ab21a92b---86885575266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a949ea39f2b---wajavirotuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/moxigama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharise.net/Uploadfiles/files/64555133190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+10+summary+a+long+walk+to+waterPDF 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_off00011c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001341e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341E 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 879eef9df1a8f03669f3648d165931bb619344c77ef5a158a704a1b4ab965876
font_02_sfnt_off00014e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E61 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 9c5d602ef7d27643d1be4c1ed45d034654ed1dfe5aa79eb0914198693934859e