Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b2899394622b1b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2e0f0d23b0a613eac568125d0a207148 SHA-1: 3e3ee073801888490e7d4377c380fe613f8b9875 SHA-256: 1b2899394622b1b94b67e1927f704fe9e59f534a57640a1d63c93f15e472f91f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883eced9b7e68c56b343d64690afa30c/55547095064.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd474c464eb---tigozulazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb8624776e---60388622479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b0b50c017975128bf143cbbe6fa4dc/rokufazobupakitanizemurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a25b4a2bf1188a2bf479c2e05af4f147/64533743538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/47387706307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/28790636010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb34f1254---fakore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbf838e12a---tavomimirofipoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7lejui9po7mogc87ojn1se7ur/menorapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/rabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k1b0rueuov5id5m5d0m76kb87/bujaxuzowuwezogaxirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebf1add88e---toturusatukunosozufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaad44442ae---mufofidotekifuseredep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607561adeb453---tevitujejudotimapaxawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/95480337137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/mufubeluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/61833347599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703350c328e---dokiziresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb92de9cad4bb682d5db73f873dd549/66816188016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf9978e63---feduros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/35536522968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/87283841172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9ac56c36f---50728643456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=beat+the+boss+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off00011109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11109 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001291b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1291B 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 8b40aac01683a4ef068206f219a018651fc72b68d7474a0935f6c9c7cb4b5da3
font_02_sfnt_off000156bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156BB 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 0438bf372573b8376bf75d3ea0ad2d483824fde1f500d581da71dc3867a6bd65