Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2341727159cbb7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5772959ecf94b201d61cfae75e89a824 SHA-1: 9984490f37fe78d3c2ccaf1d0d58d2e32947ae9d SHA-256: a2341727159cbb7bcad729614928252b86cf0da9ae5774b1d1771a9859efd770
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution point for malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may also attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent support number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/sebusipep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/40320958579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103f2a9cd291---zesixetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/41484783127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074cf27832c4f232b3b4ce1bf630a225/fanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/bokoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e1350a09b7f8c471d944428f2d1575c/joxafagagilareluzulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/41084530183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c530eb7737d---79311154505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6abe0458e0107c55b25627730dfdad3b/37839322572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ee299c8c9---kadanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/didotokenuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/falikuguwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///97519444056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1666f2050092e423eeaba712922d00/wenupagamazamumizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khacvietlaser.vn/public/images_news/files/6410195581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f19c790e9---5718947379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/63975548376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/gefane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/topatufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd55804bbb95ea6b4c6c94c3f0041a94/14031367892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/tawapujavozaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/jeribep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/titewofutezodajiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77214733149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+mechanics+statics+9th+edition+pdf+freePDF 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_off00014b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B81 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6592f74e808229f06931cf83fb41b02f482b42fac98dd7dd9aac15bdb27cc0
font_01_sfnt_off00016545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16545 21236 bytes
SHA-256: 08053b3159948c1c6e59e632ad92e7ef2aa289b09d710d59eae90ea4752ed2be
font_02_sfnt_off00019c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1