Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53f365a739583d97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b153221c5c8c2a662c04ef83cda54134 SHA-1: db3b9750348fb2feb1e5a602a47e97f49375e6d8 SHA-256: 53f365a739583d9743b8732fad8f1214b87bb7d7a0bf73df8104bb9dad65fc7c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of link farms on disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of callback phishing lures further suggests a social engineering attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/22366936648.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/43191307307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcrestneighborhoods.com/userimages/14590026123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/xetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0021277001631060269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/somowawekadatadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatuvurasotasodelulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/demorasuwavafiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/11054903663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b395d8ca13cb02d8605d732c056959e/fodusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/23889873210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokijizabumiwufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132278480c3b---kobepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a4aaa592bed4893df0473970e0f7a80/wejubalofezewusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34358328815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/52718771784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/xefewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/vanosorerifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/jetebubedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cv29q1rve66covfne37k4cbpba/fojizatakibesasigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/ferajiligasujimobolete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/genasexufokanerukovukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rimini-portal.de/bilderarchiv/file/navonotazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210905233150_842983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=war+robots+test+apkPDF 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_off0000dde0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE0 18148 bytes
SHA-256: a403046cba6d4b172d51c13922a7ae7abc5e8383309b238a97bcba51301a0f4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB2 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 15f774fc436fafdf4694828e17dc97aef0297cbc7c9b077a74bc3f824231b8f4
font_02_sfnt_off000123aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1