Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 252ae63c580c9459…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c1682af4b1cd0dfcaf3f859caa86cd2c SHA-1: cbeabe952b2603158d43ad91ffb166e9ac9ba1c1 SHA-256: 252ae63c580c94598c0fd050f440270c92e8a02c5c6b55f556a3bad403fa40a6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a callback lure, prompting the user to call a phone number in a context related to billing or security, which is a common phishing tactic. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c0542f152---5496830322.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd1a58106cfae1683d5051038545fe8/databufedobibeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnetimes.kr/upload/file///kibaputuranare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jobapomofizibulijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/2836910158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclub.org/projects/achievemore/admin/upload/fckImages/file/89140420406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/59075837654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents//files/fafigefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/19222785950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/91199929264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55716344335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a3daf90d93fa18d454dceca150f73bc/mebidimimobazefupevepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/wozibamosumiwifavomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivekusojejanelejimita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3522264366b6bf03fcb1bcf56acf8275/fotajoromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ueivtesrvt6oomhrluqna10i2f/xavetapipaderetubufisagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/83753826510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67dd4fc8af92bb0d3c019b0788c29bbc/71733852317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/renenixojuripepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/17030554407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/9223507949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=new+car+registration+paPDF 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_off0000df50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF50 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6b7e31e3fe4425b41caf00834ab29fe496670155b4fab06ab33a28bad522d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A5 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 299a120cada2de249d6981d7a5e767b661690220ebc36d847cd78fa7b8655dfb
font_02_sfnt_off000125a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1