Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc93c32128f09c2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:28:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5d8a96ce58ee1ca637376a830854eb1c SHA-1: 1726cf50aac63d60c679a0cc029235953d45c742 SHA-256: dc93c32128f09c2b385e8f6b905d2f16a3f7ba4d7794b2923d03f64908d8ab22
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure or a downloader for a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6227

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://tjpapigroup3.com/contents//files/95116688748.pdf In PDF document text
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    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cours+electrocardiogramme+pdfPDF link annotation
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