Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf54651c206bb539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 07:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4396a541421e317b99b719545db9cd73 SHA-1: 2c6d668488505c7cb3cc6634dc5bf49eeb6a8da5 SHA-256: bf54651c206bb5395ded245e192655107c26185c5a9f75e14231eac50c884562
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, some of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document also employs social engineering by luring the user to install a browser extension or update, a common method for distributing malware or stealing credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivodizomikapugit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/21954468609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/tutamevoguniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/bajuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84257451771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/mipobefivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614164c51144a---52077851495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/44195036003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/94764258351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/jevunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/202197173175866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edcb711b1c---35061823425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/nifogajixesivowipixejofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405f77600e3---tuduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexevodumaruzibazawezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mzch.pl/userfiles/file/41292796286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9019203fb565dcfe310871122f36976/tunasifiguravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimelimive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f40188c4e---dowumodutapajatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-leather.com/radsportfiles/file/zawefokikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30465786374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403e3ee7434---95071717090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+messenger+account+from+phonePDF 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_off0000e96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96A 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a0613d2aac2b6dea4a0d71ebaed89bf3ce525b25fa6dd7ddedab729d14b63f39
font_01_sfnt_off000102fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FA 18248 bytes
SHA-256: ba98668f1c4bf0567bee507686bffb4f719e14eec13b9d56f51544a682cedf2b
font_02_sfnt_off0001322c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1