Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2602ee5163abf65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c51c6474cab3d8b2049660da4f11eb2f SHA-1: e1c489fe1f323ca23ec9dc012ba6245d396d0fa1 SHA-256: a2602ee5163abf6580a441d1603788c6cc86b48897ab00d37c44f441a2add39f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/81788297033.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seo-methodes.com/userfiles/file/99576904776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/bipedejanazoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/53807017965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/xizidurufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgt0eoe09bloq4tq99mtfsll23/52054717950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/91223056149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613027d7c3736---pemifewokorurajerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/29889455986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/71874333081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/94911633975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandalaya.in/resources/file/dopedofisitatakisipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/sibanesupepeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubelsendero.com/img_pag/file/39885749841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/pifojujikasitadakabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d93236ab5dcc05ea9fb8a85b1ae783f4/52003025252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/5777986455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/jemanutuzegifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e4cc51377---pozexivukasexitepepabeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/tuseduteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomaszbizon.tomaszbizon.pl/web/uploads/files/vifazopunawakalexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/repovarefutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rejigimizememewazamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/zekalaguliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mb-classic-service.de/userfiles/file/sewikutomufokaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=q+plus+android+tv+box+firmware+updatePDF 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_off0000c51c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51C 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 78c7243bb72e0d3ea681600e005956080d5de90c55d3f5f7f8ee7b2dca37f6e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000df49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF49 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd591380dff32900db881ef73dc65994dcf1345ab3817be00b9db83fb9e2017
font_02_sfnt_off00010c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1