Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1953b8a0eeffd2a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 682ededfbea35e92f838b8a21a6668c3 SHA-1: aeacca3ee884514c4feee67f93e29f8223d55ee5 SHA-256: 1953b8a0eeffd2a6ddb1df15dbec173dbf445ad34048b1e3fcc32c01b2c666ee
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a QR code redirect lure and a callback phishing lure further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210905174927.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meuseguro.top/fotosempresa/files/208841379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/63052739902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326461cbedf---16320722896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/57606340008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/duzarezuguwuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/70031386472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/94610017548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/vakovezubawujugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56990a1b518f99c2ba092a56e952addc/69768963796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46517233678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39338965948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/89275557472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolonchem.com/upload/files/luvusiluzogodoxozaruseboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/fitoxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b411c28a1b---41759083730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c5676b937---64111038745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/82774989931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/89198427250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/29131804118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eee4b04f93---goxetanefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eab0dc6a0d---37134080499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzy.pl/Upload/file/10164206481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418006b91a8---zagunozefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/33325402549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/naruraxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+scan+a+qr+code+on+your+phone+screenPDF 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_off0000da59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA59 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 31a047d2881e30e5be7069baf1deaf69ff78dfa18471881aef40f85b6cd53ebe
font_01_sfnt_off000109cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E6 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 87f896ff2897919cf985cf7a31a9e72dddc0ccbf71aeb0bc125836121311a1e6