Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0223f5cec5a2061a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 044fb228a214cad51127a7814e528323 SHA-1: 0df13905275ae5d2be0ef97a7737707ba73a04f6 SHA-256: 0223f5cec5a2061aa8525e0e709b43f83a16a86b44ae6cb81951f784eaea0c7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with phishing lures or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negonatelemetojimoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/mejaxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gesubujati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/wubududedibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/warotujarawenukerikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbf6bd41d5a---92691286492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/gegakizesugajixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/wivexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4168771a84d90328d0073eedf226d750/62809871456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d2e707571---nidujolinegexopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/92655771119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f676dc6b0---88866415133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/50100588104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbae4afb74f04486413bf37e67e066a5/18182900512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowtravelasia.com/userfiles/files/88374771986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/lifesunanimijexevujune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf9c4f9f059---dowaxowabelumufoguwifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3083b969c---85850799205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/42494077650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/nasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/wezevejomisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6918428bf---gireralipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca3ec50ed---binamikejepiweziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a1cdde53a6021711cf3ac2bacce1fe/33433474054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105060806285610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c23c9f54a---nigawewovugotifoguperul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=paulo+freire+the+banking+concept+of+education+summaryPDF 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_off0000f030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF030 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 16489b20c849f6a7e1347f8fcb1f98d008a786122dbea6d84f96fe33ecdc99bf
font_01_sfnt_off00011e33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001364a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1364A 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 7643031a2512bdb82f9c6ab57fee202d826ca792258e96f0d471a4fb19d95cb1