Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ead42c067b8cb7fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-05-20 22:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fa212b9dd89be397dc18b890afd2a57f SHA-1: a6cd595a92d146be80d8f94f30ae4a0de57dd891 SHA-256: ead42c067b8cb7fd32c8df13cc3dcf1f0253a380e8bfad4e757fdd18c8681540
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, consistent with tech-support scams or callback phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or initiate fraudulent calls.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nj+transit+bus+2+zone+price PDF link annotation
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756609baced---zirivezimuleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16086383c36c53---nopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7f828d70519a49d9ef0e6448801815/jirilinogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c903da5627deb11b6cfa08d7f4863b66/vitovuvididodigoriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3f42b6111---kifukebuzeselezanetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99f6416c7---36907728891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile/%5C/49103534846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608418fcefb61---5603158441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/19877919425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f204e5b6cbf4a36d2dbeeafa04de1d06/22884919489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086038bd1ab7---83878026346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a403a15fee1---16412833341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb16b737c7---71640484425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bd07209d74fbace58affad27ae6124/43898338947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/806ad622d97e8a23d379f2693c3b4568/52974015993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps13n50odri5c8so27tab2u75e/vinujizewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f888aa3d3---fudoboniladetaditafisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00013c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C96 5260 bytes
SHA-256: e4806389dac5f14c2a71c94eb829856c65e3337da761f14406ca80ea34df8a8c
font_01_sfnt_off00014e97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E97 11656 bytes
SHA-256: 1f4aa9093d5443971b82d2493f98d223ac947f9fabf9f7e16c674bf19974e6c6
font_02_sfnt_off00017672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17672 16232 bytes
SHA-256: d8949076153b506d0263e7f774c3afe225f31c34230a03cbf93bb85259a13da0