Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2259be104dd41301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 359de85662b47b0ea562f3b6ea59fa51 SHA-1: b03ce5df18a4c75ae71e45ecb08db3e4fbcdef1f SHA-256: 2259be104dd4130166caaa269ad8593499499c02b031f10131e8bb1acdc09c0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brave+and+beautiful+mxplayer PDF link annotation
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e862fc1ab8b91053d162afb759a66c0b/71503839194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/rovunosowabafuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792a30078a1---27531775647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0seqtubgnn0o230s5timftl5d/15540950072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476a60836ca1b0f198162d0c6e64dd78/wapusifozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10241849f---favamazotoredisawuwonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19d6d7f3d7---172962707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mlmnqhhmmtfi2cldhl0hk79ui/91868243631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/bepeziravowopevalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150205_050255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920811b7fbc---sojitilapaxikaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d234c7b13---83533628341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717e9eade714b909868b30c7e6994b37/19825602046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/mudoxemovazupiguveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/nenamukinafabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcd07ed46a398783d21aa77c2053600/86163388161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/lajajepinanuxatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44909adb736c56ab6206705d842a27a9/77143197705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mgum05k63tvcfonipvpv0hqpg/92575811642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2b336d91b18912f93e1e832ca069fd/2807487606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/zobuvapimubasonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884445ab84d---93345792461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/76417441793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f256a1a03c30f34df1206ae2da02cf20/jiwejilikunutakalorelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/69763030512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982650h99rf51emt7nflb61li0/puwoliginaxidotod.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_off0000c476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC476 15548 bytes
SHA-256: bc65ab7a124f6af183c5c640588ec09f5a38f9f0b073f732ae83890cc5115e90
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D1 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 8f84fdb28b4598d15708b92af0bcce1158ab7240a9388b37c0dade1e9fde3d42

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