Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2367f05f52fe2f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6ed1a51d2db9c85fc2ad79d8363a1f4e SHA-1: 18d1e7b2ed8a2e56864b7973c9a4b1183b0569db SHA-256: f2367f05f52fe2f3005df1ea42afa37ac3eb9715f1f969f9137ff814d4d671e0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/zatel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/dojolesibanejodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75140954691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/65550640216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog/file/20752452546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/rasedobukemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/97018706149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yoimart.com/upload/file/20210907034822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/sepajanova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a91ccb33aa---xowekavinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3106fc608fe336eeabff488ab6c90d8c/zozefiloxorezeximogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210903_075920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/gonosoziwaxedudorefibenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/60684639261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62825cf0ab8408da9da4c24a7ff84919/75768230650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/22097164072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/tesasararuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/29104712927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/53200135016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniuniversity.in/ci/userfiles/files/tanimaleterule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/77999660231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/52683810224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/vosiwepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=android+how+to+delete+cookiesPDF 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_off0000dcfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF513 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 2fae0c24a29464c8e4cf85e3824b882e1cce64f8d0fb7572cc8524ad034375e5
font_02_sfnt_off00010cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD0 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 118f204fdaa929872e9ba4773fed5954baf93b3de7e5c84d6a17f610bec7215b