Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 252e31059ea7f183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-27 17:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f096d6886e408229219234393131850e SHA-1: 56174044936b0a2b4535df188b4a1f98edfe6222 SHA-256: 252e31059ea7f18347f4a6e29eb54369072efb264eb0fec457fc4324660af9a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and URL distribution suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da681539059bc963ee39664d0a732c0c/65445987392.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9af235de4c---mewawevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/51060657191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba704e41fc5413abdfff3569a2379aaf/83923688774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kids-ex.com/28000021581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c05fa9bdae87eecdbcb80addaf0fe92/tukujosezaxubokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb4d39a2f9---gonakikonevixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b398650e2---misalakawexilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4veokf02uis8fqsiqdekj282/butudidavofolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d82d85265ce---52921533546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91343831ffcfea34790bd735537c32ad/bajuxelupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/61395274060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e2e36b82e61e6ce6aa7e4eee2a6c1f/napakugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fae2b72f7ff84d07e59864ca731846c/pudetiwoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a690a821e032a946afe156683b76fa/20913768034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57665987759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995c6209bda---duluzoworiwaneguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/piruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722b6371eb5---lazovalokunita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6f860a701---29883253417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/393067234611f1abc645d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/26283349239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36840013356dfc392dd281256a1c1aab/70355080452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/40088769673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601cfaec2b3870a686fddd8ea2f54c5f/75725222716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=use+of+in+spite+of+in+a+sentencePDF 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_off0000db37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB37 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 63b6050a27a1711030327f57d4e97a9751a8e3815ed5a3bddf39945e1d4d32ff
font_01_sfnt_off00010746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5D 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 7e3b95de4a40b6e83a3f720e970b7a22e68948788be65501dc4dfbe951ee2f5f