Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 656e2d7a5900338d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:25:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 71005fa036c84249d15bbbc81cad931f SHA-1: 91bd334d110760ea74b564fc0e583d03100695eb SHA-256: 656e2d7a5900338d8de25d35661f2e98cc8175e6659cce6db3f28c86f048f6c5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to deceive the user into downloading or interacting with harmful material.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • 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://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd248cd3ee856967ced6690fea49b332/xariwokejidema.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a386bf5f375b792a85152284d6739b47/26672150918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecf1d02cee---sasutetemoleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/98414564512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/kezemagosavigerobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d9d5b5049a---90943047337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45880564762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/levewefifesuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/42821271195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72d454c52604ffcf95e30162f08df43/61310358185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roleco.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lezaxosugagonepujizuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c4e1a0dbc---9491299653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/79631685820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/begavawavava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/fezawawinotejubexunusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrt5pmg9lnsav128rtt12dv024/55811657394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73833889017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/vijawutijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/24298306291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/basukenukirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reeder.ee/files/filemanager/mazakobubudagopalefomonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7298bcbf0---dozumunemukedesagezevibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=advertisement+writing+worksheetsPDF 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_off00010ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF2 19464 bytes
SHA-256: d3d658826c3e8c183d232c7a4fe83b5cf2af558718243d02cc9f67dc54a51b55
font_01_sfnt_off00014181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14181 10712 bytes
SHA-256: c5f67e6c4906306a2cf4ad2b46355e54e670f0c391a8322db97bb0b6a88ba959
font_02_sfnt_off000159c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1