Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52935917b11f725e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: de9426b3cf920a902c628aef092f5b2d SHA-1: 2560487f4ba2fafd91f1f471e8a0416ceed07b70 SHA-256: 52935917b11f725eee55bd6063c17e6245d72e46b9635a61c1ea08f1860ec732
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://securitydm.com/slicice/file/felateduxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60386761159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781aad63c0a---47065706628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/50603820765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olkp7lvpr8jo59ccd249tqqrb1/68334834027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/7203378406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93b1fb3a8311dc8f9ccfb71adc89cba/zuwapiziduroviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf14755c29---gorejudemuterob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskypohar.cz/upload/file/36394145605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/butobasajama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/kulolovexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde2496a79066e9c9979dcf08fd5ef0b/xuvuruzozolaponifanewenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3u1nrkcji89i4pqmcik8r29g4/xeliwumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/89669763056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/88870250456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/mizofukafuregizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34553863043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/sigazowemepekuvafubebulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2819b3f9ae---42829048382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/nexisizurage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6b041581bb86a7a61f6fc95d869bd1/11942138546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1df3228e2e20fd14d056f65037f944/bewexavawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a19f29840ee8dce59a169e7aa79f95a4/17634454003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hampton+university+application+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_off0000d8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B0 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3d36c333eda153ce11eb4654520b890f5f095729a0f500138052667bd710d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF265 17800 bytes
SHA-256: d40c7b5e688c182ddc033b344c0680fc65266deaf039043f071bfddaaff773a5
font_02_sfnt_off00012073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12073 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1