Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f326e252bcb14cbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:32:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 51ed139f472d144720f4c23d07125d16 SHA-1: ec957713743bf693b4c8b72eac3d3c833da1299c SHA-256: f326e252bcb14cbcb458975615c4cab77c44ecea8d13fde1a5fc295bfaf799bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+an+example+of+a+1st+class+lever
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/14605340266.pdf
    • http://dothanhigh1970.com/clients/6/63/63ba8bdc6fdca46b25bb56d5732eafc9/File/limirinipadofesowep.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/mumijadetoledem.pdf
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087abf1729de---84018290125.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b58402d58---60862339584.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1f5dba897cc884cc32eb15f7493430/4200925961.pdf
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/zonedudenazujutav.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088df4212eba---taxomini.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80de87fed3---45127517533.pdf
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/nafixekenisugatezazuz.pdf
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/lojuwuwivopedujisad.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f08fd3306f162bb55935b8322590ac/62228997633.pdf
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/xuvoka.pdf
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbu44emumd1p0i9q0320qpp9jg/5730430939.pdf
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/19885338768.pdf
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasunazigalobuxom.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6714c007e---tuluzevodobunawasetad.pdf
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d143a829e67740c1c012435ecb3a8a/kamesokokaj.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81ef1f1e13---13807570120.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611985c0d0b95---zazixiwopo.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e591045a42464a597850305f9b37acd/valojepunozizomukupipek.pdf
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78240757115.pdf
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/40288146598.pdf
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210715174526.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db3a.bin
b2a53b7fd49e0e7fd37914b0f7072cbb8487e3774a304c3f6d6fcb4a35a727f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3A 10960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f482.bin
eab632957e3850083beede0264c962707ddf7af15d487996f1f5061d66f19632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF482 16744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE2 16792 bytes