Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad529e3e9b77f95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:42:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b100efb0b271eb122f03a76e3da1fd2c SHA-1: 4adf28e1b664cc1f92372d127318c61a3def448c SHA-256: cad529e3e9b77f95fdb1e95a96ea93174fabf87e0e0ce42151d8484522dd749e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF phishing trojan by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The document body was unreadable, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for billing or security issues. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, suggesting a distribution mechanism for this phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711d407c671---gutivativolakuve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af37ed3c24dd1b3e331c5763e44c09d/92405247761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/mebiludinawogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081766284dc0---90302006961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/kulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae4287302f9a1203cc38735adf09816/xeluvalamatapaxipupebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/64294435504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/vinage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmvormrjo1ga7m9jof0rou0aa2/77752711071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mof27mp9ibvgkeoatjart8vhr6/xoviponezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/pokowilato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deryalvincotokurtarma.com/userfiles/file/fanaxaduwabetuwagevejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4187fa87d2---damatomobiromokuzites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/85018009548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/wazaperenanebedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787e8c628d1---terigovamago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a78f317a---lavagujapedelipevazuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c67efbf512---30304425034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fc9db0af9---saragujosebevisekodinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/97249233891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/gajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/994970ee8cd73d1aa23a2b8577aa90e6/juruzotexiteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003517a84a1d992465cdbdc1a93ed576/14647214260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=funny+english+puzzles+with+answersPDF 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_off0000ea8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8B 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 82331a6ddda7f9439e17eb0b170cfa866947bd7c60956507285879da10514da4
font_01_sfnt_off00010349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10349 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 0853cdcc09f148584ca59e8cb89f2384b1e028b4ff3ddac13b42e0e9c0097c70
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1