Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed353152a4feb1b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e01ffdc8a38027658fd82adf39415a27 SHA-1: a4d34af82743e5a4cf47ebb957016a8f2a92bc94 SHA-256: ed353152a4feb1b3167334094cd7bea16847076a960c32111557823c02e1252c
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent is to solicit sensitive recovery information from the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+mac+in+recovery+mode PDF link annotation
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/51893349319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/jofopaporepinixeligowafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/tepomewogusaxafikopiwale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/20674606589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58495241621.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fde52313ef---38530999120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/11124862433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307096570d2---juwomivuroposagesina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/701931790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21e840ed32171c40aa940bc9f81ee88b/83996562267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/surotalaluladakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75109260864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50638657046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/44985156240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/dajirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/7237938794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/77314490258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/2233913584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408261d79e8---54500903252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigefurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/momesimatuvowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE564 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 53a762fcf8bf91bea56bc9b4d7316fb1ce61aeaf8654e5370e4a62384a7b46e6
font_01_sfnt_off000110df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F6 10740 bytes
SHA-256: a2710d3e77b5e80ace95964640b58f40f5f3d8fd2959d856465b1d8158149713