Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaec64254dbd8954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 582f1d74cb581dd793e438cf738342de SHA-1: e70f8f39034db94ed7d098c4d7261af4ccece2a3 SHA-256: eaec64254dbd895436aac6749e437c60d664ef579b24392e8c73617d3b25bf5a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a phishing or tech-support scam context, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://hostingyuvasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/76079109486.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fo53auqhm1p3phvn6b1vvl77/17353708730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de255af08a---fugeful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhed9vb40jc5vpu9r8ggteeh4j/34446468830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea31d57a75---ruvenezolamapifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01d3fd32b7---vabosodexuwuxozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kartplast.com/resimler/files/vuridej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/natidujifaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro7pvhufinuh0jfoutug8fsi0t/wixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/ladibetidopisaferig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d77213d35ce---bafebeselarofujezifomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba11fb54136826c57f888fb33f8976d/72187137271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/47532172305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/83681254236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9992df0b3393878b5e7725c8ea54a2f8/mafipobopojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/34556586771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/49992013144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0aa50e4a535e448450af13ed054279/11869667029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/fixapunoziriraxakimova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7sllhl4teaicipbkf9u0scrf6/mogejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a88c07b24b09187c359c7ea067c00081/10513604516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c65be0cb50---kusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45442a61a2---70960053298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30e1f24daf---63917318450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+old+chequers+innPDF 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_off0000fe99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE99 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 8b3f98bbb990cb60097dbb4e9b477115bb16f24937a7ba084ab5ebe5b746ff29
font_01_sfnt_off00012d97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000145ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145AE 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 5d671bb2fda0273909d789eea550ee56972e202162453fa9038ab174340bca25