Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2602ca1c14cf5b52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f5033c7dad3a28096c16b198862cbdef SHA-1: e57f7adf73f536bd59a61b20f138bc7097d1ff12 SHA-256: 2602ca1c14cf5b524c0f8af8664116376194f46ee7b54d43171f203f5e4c39c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL analysis indicate the PDF is likely a dropper or part of a phishing campaign designed to trick users into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=indonesian+drag+bike+racing+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e1d2c8a13ff0fd75a666127c326141/54426854694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkind.net/userData/board/file/dosojigapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/13907102636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/vonelazidani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/7979722790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/sekarotubanorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/vomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/13873026036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354db05e1f5---66356004430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/sezuxagokomopabogazavilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13125936015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35029401890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377bfa4eef1---68532411095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/5535352905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/88317195940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1355868860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitolututemunukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p03drjiaa4pnci6ihdef1pn6su/jutinadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/koluvise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexedufinojoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/71970643702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_E9A72F846EDD7163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/bezuzumaparobofuwisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/pubibadavotofajugabiga.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_off0000e1f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F8 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 4caac3accdd5eeabfaf24f4c4122674d293bcf4bb45e478590ab693605e78c9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CF 17844 bytes
SHA-256: b6d5db8299363d97f219fd323c3648254d83193d152ebd1caddb1bfb534cba91