Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2538699a74e06511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5f7ac5e46b8f34d6d189d2e514ddda9b SHA-1: b209155cd692dac2952c471b851b65c10e8e17dc SHA-256: 2538699a74e0651193e202dc1779c9ba6e437fe765d6f8791a642b27f1785864
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely serving as a lure for users to download further malicious content or be redirected to phishing pages. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/85393422469.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/kegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced06204686---61049458528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad9637bebb---89295611895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608612c6053a5---24730168451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/ferafobizafinatapozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffc90d80d7af8e5d12f2668fc6e1035/kolabebabexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/xudifozemesozozesaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bde011dc6---71114513056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/mirusaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b385eca55---83596242704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/36423295888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ef9fc94e326b6d57a4f7fab221a01e/sipinusaponoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gobojuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e04024eaac903556e10c27db66674d4/93166756096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/98787098272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b406ad6035e0b2e75cce096c3f2933c/kanelevolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a08e23623329370daf0780e09c46fc/51007565250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o5c7n6ts984epi8ms6moult65/gozegipebigodekezufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/fozodowasalakosofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2483632716---tizebiwoboxepugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a16aaa5c3e---tadipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=at+the+end+of+the+day+harry+styles+memePDF 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_off00010882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10882 18288 bytes
SHA-256: e946f703d5702f10410a4b566447088d3540b333fc6ad4148cf4f0886f1925d5
font_01_sfnt_off00013888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13888 10624 bytes
SHA-256: b4fb8af6188cc117e27d5eda6a7074a6c0019c7760672c9e7ddc51439c1fccac
font_02_sfnt_off000150b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1