Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c82e239d32717458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 17:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0adacfccd4dd4b2658a5df58310ba159 SHA-1: ec852ca58722decc58ce6ea7d48bd1c29eed2291 SHA-256: c82e239d327174588c20186e1c6115b7b11433f673609f6115dfe70b533b6e91
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised CMS upload locations hosting other PDF files. This pattern suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/goxololok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a2336879b---24283871082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f5f77ddbc118c2134cbd263ca4ace19/gujuvodubuvoxifakudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fc9828575---52420035793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/jorebika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ac3b84386---xezuroveguwolajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c246759205---12548448564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/33618216063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/87848185648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27757768364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35146629374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd94ddc0d9ad7c7085eebbe4985cb083/pefelirakegekekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/44046655227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e6e7c4545---sogovepuwijibofubene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/87171436859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forthepeoplegov.com/userfiles/file/monubawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovopisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4sontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/54747319540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1806144787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9d53603c486f0b06b928a03ea9f7de/25717387768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/99513168167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/3502883568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/tiwojodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd4533e6aa---bolofiwijimusomuwupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=dct+unganged+modePDF 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_off0000f78f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 10408 bytes
SHA-256: ece83d10867294dc84c55e127da4a15ba59147b42c309109a86c05e2541c1bc5
font_02_sfnt_off0001270a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270A 17796 bytes
SHA-256: f13720d91a7cc2f7fc243af6d40a010ba556ae07d71eb084409a631c1de76676