Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2253d15c6ca72b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2984dad3efaecb70e2dc22b481191a3e SHA-1: 70287b6129ed9205d93ac8c790e5326de9e17bc1 SHA-256: b2253d15c6ca72b04d13c41ac16da63618522869f05ddc131b167940d32ccdbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and link farm behavior indicate it's likely part of a phishing campaign or a downloader for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/90463939724.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/84126012974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lus8sfqkpi33ildg77u5c5qtr/77378928970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082925ff01fd---bikanarerewoladugupido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be068dbbc5---tevabikokigufutalinexuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee00a515e5debb71e8f637c325c5573/kafaxujajabofetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38818078976755229ba7585205ff5c56/71524701018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/26076404558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f53b449755---95262570868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/zazivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diriwefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a293d7f1f2963b90a0a4214a918638c/58041520481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1r2vk56i9s1agbqs3hodbui81/5483227249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a460ff2a800---28858392505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62221423139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/jujigigegagibiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/kozigugobigagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/93974270056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5d06b75e---tizavuwosanimepigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/66550205447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/85961759301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/suwiwabaxavoguzitiwibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/pesubenawovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/runejimisewusevuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ged%C3%A4chtnistraining+kinder+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_off000143cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BE3 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae04ca6e911846fed24735b5bfa81193d3dd846b923fd4d5bd5f8d7bee46e04
font_02_sfnt_off0001751b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1751B 17760 bytes
SHA-256: f605f4f479f16540d789203b8d450996d57386ef980cf40a7b2858ef41de3c9e