Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58dd3549a9cbad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:04:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0946e8a7d4be36ffd1eb22f775f95c20 SHA-1: 5d99d90d81f851a6fdec031cedc0d053bdbfe4c6 SHA-256: c58dd3549a9cbad80526b1514dbab789f23e8080f9ee3a7cb6d487f63b17c920
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the true destination. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech support scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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) 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+directory+submissions PDF link annotation
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808a35b3a32---96726390827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/97609127438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcbcf23fc6---76963314165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/157b47cc5ec769c32872d3d7ae7f0bab/96637155077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608705a04f9da---bofatusugopatowediluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/48516942307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507032248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a760321ef0---josozafegidamobupolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijahlaurabishopblack.com/clients/b/be/bed082b287f5bb70db4763ab929fc18a/File/31697601060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae54f13a0e8---zufusadujakenuderolisuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99606d077184b2a37091ca2affdbc98a/62174087515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/ripemadezupuzuwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754da33393f---palavekomujabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/dovezutadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a1c2ad0a3---bugizojobefadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa23eabc54---97892317355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdacfd55d4e6e85d83507b91f7b24157/tifewolenemukejemasasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/18989387011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1144abf307120da5b8dfb089b07d22d3/wigorefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ece17858ebf---rofavegogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9ceaa37c2---77620842235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999188e5a4a---23492285933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000103c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C0 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 25ee6b119f9987c728c80053b17bfc69c17323b4e9ca1f3761e7467760098670
font_01_sfnt_off0001326e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A85 10880 bytes
SHA-256: b3119089a03c3948711a0a6165038ae2277edafcae162c63bdee67aec43b93ee