Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be5ca6002beb4e93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 41fa4853940b4bdee4e97c5df077d70c SHA-1: 69f32d46c157687771090e6a861ffda565817f63 SHA-256: be5ca6002beb4e93a2841e5c888f01ff61beb2a0f13098ef3780fc229b723122
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, and it exhibits callback phishing lures consistent with tech-support scams. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall heuristic profile strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt designed to trick the user into initiating contact.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/91309301235.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/teretubavumivozasakefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7npnso778839427fsv6tttt8/nivofinuwovoneputes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/70459617061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qkon3q530mj5pp6kemn8sjo80/waxegabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc698d36e8931b6f4a104ff7f11552b7/69528593434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d1b81a0a0---67932381443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c563b7f85b200b62552a9fa02ead0e/dimofokogideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c560214138d904b3d96f0078846eff7f/20267245456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89306199325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b077d7d0b---12716513716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cftnqreh17l6jqi850q08g39o6/2635516297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarealestate-eg.com/userfiles/file/529309819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/45475890684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/divkf31gvob1b0eeuafjtj7q25/jimevetimujezujevopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/zikisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/kidokax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf6d1f264e---mutafokusuwilarolezuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/tivakuruzifumake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/66630452220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/jalozagujuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d28c8aecd695ba0c71b29b1f779416/fifaforidafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+to+cancel+escrow+accountPDF 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_off0000e4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFA 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 8828fdcaf0c408b4bd4f659b050bbafbce265b97f0aa976ff659f4d319519fc1
font_02_sfnt_off000129e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E8 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1a1682cacc1430ea514a5ccae2be7087606a2e4d3c66e0d3efe722fc818eee