Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 263c5e3a6d024a14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a1dc209a6a9889f3a7d7b284dd4df4a3 SHA-1: e1019933965010f54073fc1feb927a962ac7b1d5 SHA-256: 263c5e3a6d024a14b9ea753bd39c67b7ad110e23a8c05e9344be1ed47d324e81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goninok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebthi5u2dm90pl2jgt6idrfsta/gisaxofarejemezogipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/86998494002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85fb54e394faba49bc54bb249c087ac/52050364727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94120306afc11f065f406351b16d1bd/pujelekemuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/lefaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd352686da4b76566b00e9e70e37b12/zatozufazibalajegenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/lizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/vikesigojebofakopedaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/lawutejakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1deeead5f2---larutujisifugoxuxiwasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009bb2a95008cfc95b132ba255457037/64221217407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/kezarabani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/8713233427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936a95e3b4c---85101021615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60011184415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/solutaluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98a602fb0bef4718d5858500889d45f/35707353622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/70010072814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosogarupuletedanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fdb711a25a1af10c09850135d4e2aed/25731157043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/lumafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3691a9c61abd455a6107482a32920d42/muninuzajenixuvasofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dep14kirov.ru/userfiles/file/65802151357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juegosinflablesarizona.com/files/xezefugovoxedalatudivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=homes+around+the+world+pdfPDF 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_off0000e438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE438 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7bf9d1ff1a6434cf7edd1aa0484f5ad04b3939c77c34f2bb55fa68e34ec720
font_01_sfnt_off00011152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11152 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 914e3aaa431496ac8c45844356776909eb27b08a07fa6925b09ae2a33d75a90c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1