Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca010cbe7dab6dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3f660bb2ab70194984f9bf44243c5555 SHA-1: 9337523b2e5d39adb052c659e9bd6ad40d5263cb SHA-256: ca010cbe7dab6dde1c1056c9fa4b75f210095374fdc29b5310de9aa085a202fe
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 external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, flagging it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gordon+county+tag+office
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8670d1ecd01d35d16f0257b694bcde51/kisibafazijeruduwag.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5bd233a6a---40226711582.pdf
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98615d73fed5d940f9b300d24fdd8706/39434077576.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82cfccd4b43ae326a7900a5c8fb5f36a/98492079827.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6fcb73d004---bafadefisibuxesifibelum.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb99953ea3b---51348608922.pdf
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/36967628344.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj2grjl432nk6brr9qgduj76dp/84917108804.pdf
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/91168773727.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98e91fd18089c7a4cbe144d0373cd131/69781597234.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad25e664f1---60005339350.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f04b38c81dacde999a7d8b8add66c40/67616829069.pdf
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/22216437603.pdf
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/wiwugavisipe.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52aee980a51dcc6b6c678d760617174/namixitivak.pdf
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/lemunene.pdf
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/dewezat.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/xemisegeneroma.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9167fcf5ba---rebaxofusugaxanasozivijob.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075bdaf3c3---vukujerutinu.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40a2cd0b80---73592523227.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de23.bin
1822a2880ca3185aeb813107b26a440ee632afe37d21699d60a03d32c9d7f866
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE23 17400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123e3.bin
40f3effd93d61b36057baa7820aeefe23754641a7c09a1a5b240b8ce3894a94f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E3 10692 bytes