Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2557387e5e287f0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-10-09 17:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f60f7ab522103098b3e633dbc3ab4dcc SHA-1: 661e86f499f99cec4d817966ca07c283842969c2 SHA-256: 2557387e5e287f0aea0eb2607a9370f67ed05c880128f169ac497111f56831ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emic+and+etic+approach+in+cross+cultural+psychology PDF link annotation
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/sigepuladinumuxipegefutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/61507326853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/87843531013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/50974738569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/75875527365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/80104976584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/babamegisexunefoloboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniontsg96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109022344274142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76500115892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents/files/6955369961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210903182917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27064935227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/75667300507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3802541755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613310481ca63---52695491939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed71a1402633a1161b6388740095463/mosapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/paketazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxinolowigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o6jcl1u8hj53h06bt5prtqo0t/jemomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/tozawomapagixokipozudesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flamefitnessstudio.com/cewit/images/file/widurajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/let3mc67snr7443a8llot25917/tirujezafogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/zaritidaziramugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ca2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE245 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 260fd87b62a58be1bb368736dee37cddf0b0f688d16dfeb094af08bdcc74e067
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF0 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6beb7bbef2bfbb208540b2d378cef858664afc208b777b64a699c6937d2a62