Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e99fab74739956d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 20:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 272c5790c1a0e5a35e3a327ec56fa01a SHA-1: 1b31759d856a30ff0212b6fe8c6d40d924e8fa41 SHA-256: e99fab74739956d0e2031ac5257799743a9c3f55bfaa68ff9690aa4085501955
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicate a phishing or scam attempt, likely designed to trick the user into calling a fraudulent support number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68f6e2f7286348bb1d56653b3901570/kujogogadenira.pdf
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/niputowosemuwez.pdf
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3921bb2c6415e6c97959d5760208705c/ditonevetagexi.pdf
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/90678284406.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbd9695325---dupolevalub.pdf
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/32279659783.pdf
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/wojevikavo.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120a61c56d59ac1532a8301fad8139f2/waxupogadaduxikojamamas.pdf
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/53745224991.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf1fd99252---sowewox.pdf
    • http://bethtikvahevents.ca/clients/2/20/20a91c0cb94b02964b0d1c5d980f1596/File/54556639415.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089422a35670---fekebanefibu.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f417bb4adfc---polawerajubipiti.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lh3467oh367httlgjnqa0aqu2/4821479784.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090314bca41d---darovukurobidakigewewa.pdf
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/koxirotexijagamozi.pdf
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natidisobomavijavupu.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd49cc38654bb5e5c68fe1c04b6bf40a/93284483434.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0205isuo5o2t9mcqg6rg9odq/zebogopem.pdf
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bab1734d74---83633406089.pdf
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/pobadezotimolid.pdf
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/1512020619.pdf
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/25897507183.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=breach+of+trust+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_off0000f782.bin
76d93cd15fe21b3b257b331a7de42efa9b76e280f55d288a206bb070eb060102
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF782 10628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011000.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11000 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012812.bin
830fa444488e58b90595b2add898cb041f476b549ad110b20f4418b07ff68f7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12812 17116 bytes