Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fda7ef470afe29dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:19:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 191eacb47f51f3d268e7e80fb1dfb070 SHA-1: 040c3c2921c86b020bc716dc7c2bdc94ec4d2ad3 SHA-256: fda7ef470afe29dca987e024068a2193335c09b4fbef712e2b78442729095ff0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or scam campaign. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic confirms the document's intent to trick users into calling a phone number for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f993d127b---42385796453.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/popejaritepamobova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8jv8bdk73tf54lqjhl71c7hg6/49024252575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/jukifarezesuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/tebixekujaworixumejadugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflbdq.com/uploads/file/231133161022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021063017563873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c23f45a6ff19f4f4fe0a35bc1d74dab/saxewipuditanare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/purizerumimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termocasasrl.com/file/12216661917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/rujimajolabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/fichiers/33913195639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.gr/upload/luxexarunikujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed27ab330625e8be02a39592c24377b/vulixigokiwopojula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c758d464d60---tarogarukaxidot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/nubotadukifevusesetebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob0hqe2ji8tn6ese8i8u0gj6k0/39563888823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingpazari.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77855273377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e40156fd6---90023289580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/39665965411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/sofurofinagamezobivewulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/wujefimeburilowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/89886555452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d4b143bac---77203842523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+a+bt+smart+hub+2PDF 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_off00010208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10208 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 8a826edbd57bed8f8feac697de39c3e23e785681269c3eb99a4bb9da651d1048
font_01_sfnt_off00013054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001486b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1486B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 8c092b30c48db254b6c97a6bb403c0b7a891354bee94171e98904b35fe421c7b