Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7dadb77b1925feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 09:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 00a67b9d31cd01f2c04ff678c17009bc SHA-1: 892d57d030a1e98a420c0db728344d46e8bbb5e4 SHA-256: e7dadb77b1925feb4dc0935d0d4c10563b1acafb6837101fb4ea8c2cb5e4f52b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into downloading the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e49493a65d255152f6c977a68fdb42c/mupizaxutijufumipufi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b5901b0fa---bazezosiripuwajufepupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23444674639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad69dab3012---33545856326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8cfdbf0b2b---99063655926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f96c3707cd---30158786580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbaaecb643b---bisiwidumaxenowagisobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210623_055640_1051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenubadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cceaeacc64b58d03c970b7a1996dcbf5/lunetisimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb221059693c5ddf457f668d158347ba/gojalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/kirotelimegimitunulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/favudapino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e61c773b---22225323531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faf459d604---83684687008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2afab2b5eb---25924844014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ef928048a---mipufefiruwaxububi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722baad69a7---69894643519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvi97fusuhth8gi789qb35a9t7/94045672020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v90doeueugs484p4286c5qhj6n/tajowusabigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_25A7D2786EB14FA4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98944239996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/6724125341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=plantronics+c054a+headset+instructionsPDF 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_off0000e7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FC 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 5736c0715a8a8765f202494a3f3857fd77ef5da434ca0eaf093025d5845a79ef
font_01_sfnt_off0001013e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11950 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 78fe4bbc2bb1d727f2f909d488806ecca4051c48efa4bdd510d29cc0076adb09