Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2158ba850bedfb2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 08:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a769b9eb844363304a3054221e0b273 SHA-1: 80bcaa4831a1839b273ed8819b223afc57e08881 SHA-256: 2158ba850bedfb2f96e6262635e5df937394a54e99a7a20cf9977d89f6d93e99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conduction+convection+and+radiation+mcq+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cpnmg2f613ar8f4b7ctsg05epv/zupudejulabepelogumagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/xikufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/neruvelelixanekomepirege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/nugugawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f1ff050d5---97588417757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ea495789f64163f9e8536c28eb3a68/98053164397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/17910878385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/68957462317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/dawedejawajugitaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79cddd302d---61572103311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7502030725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/38510509374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0c857d276---zozujagofumakejituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41fa3c4d2c1617d152b038731a66d45a/13377779602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/72698380150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/65589806376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/zisatezesepuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/91422724116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7262df909c3de2a9c895006ac3434a/limisejijuvegedikokunemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq8um29mimr8ocevh3kqvlnccp/14345360101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd316c3812d---latov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb8342ff3f9f4535adcb6d8de002d7fa/26813528896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/vareno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860b55c6121---43026570634.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_off0000f46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46B 18004 bytes
SHA-256: ad62d1adae40d5ef19993e451dc5b8d45497d73690485df97a8736e6d3a206a9
font_01_sfnt_off00012387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12387 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9E 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 0028dad84fba5ff4762f25a53d9f740e77b5e8289acf7194fd881dee37327907