Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a4778617fd2f00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 11:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ce6b09475d81ab8cebd4e79a7b123c43 SHA-1: 60153bb9530af13682e7cb9c13ac68befb4333f3 SHA-256: d7a4778617fd2f0086ce75150e20e5ab10e37fe5828844fd80459ea41e8ec1a0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or conduct phishing. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://theblare.com/image/upload/file/74299895834.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/wibuwilulokimijupepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021092015202670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a338daba26e428c0eb03a98e3de04aa/19620149341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147e854071e8---dinukorodagitewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/77952219375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawoctane.com/uploads/file/24326671472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66843965304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/22468224000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/90334118509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/vimililunavonuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374931a7428---renogupafupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/wiridakofelufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f9ca92d3e---33431135481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinchenfast.com/upload/file/nomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64971354745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/73180684874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161507fa600537---zuvagojudujazalozesixeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/56363164274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/27979547508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/nuremakopewofugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1lu7havdapmo6rjdfvju4j2gv/lusexudovepobakejixabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/25500859727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pain+in+left+side+of+stomach+and+backPDF 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_off0000b39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39B 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 033b259528b89daa24929ae3a8a420e5515b94ffecfaa7311bdcd2381ade1215
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC84 15916 bytes
SHA-256: 44c601b4cc5ae152b8e7722b8a7307758b738c3a3307b5ca2a0ee4498c29a848
font_02_sfnt_off0000f50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1