Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2531ed63829dda19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a1bef128f2f3dc21507d86b506eb767d SHA-1: 593c3d0914407a3de31a342f219a15cefb01d50a SHA-256: 2531ed63829dda19fb75432c056cd004ff874a8231beca5dda4646bc1e3b55b3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, including one pointing to a raw IP address and another to a PDF hosted on a compromised WordPress site, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://kultmotor.hu/images/files/18572419350.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7906a208dede144b154b390b44c99093/63449701625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/zulodunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/21774063241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/45681154974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210911185513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_085540.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/43885209684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904115407780364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royal-pizza.eu/files/file/nudeligusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeongwonenc.com/userfiles/file/mubivumosagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45515015096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ffbe5adc34---78212475207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c561b9d14fa23e28feb0eeaec67dbf1/nasunoxefeluwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85133081258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/6230419635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/vemirutuzevirajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/61241230981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/35138783435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4ddb2d4ce---52924175668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sainaudit.mn/File/13142066264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79455163560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6880383629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+for+chrome+tabletPDF 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_off0000ddb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB0 10592 bytes
SHA-256: b529ba36ac0b71a88ee043861e0d51f806ae52e1e65103ae58c84b6106d724ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E8 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 88d010dd4c1b27d86e96c576c93ef5871abe53f1d169d169de2504844666319e
font_02_sfnt_off0001256f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1