Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2326dd72a31ce206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a5f0c570434a4706585307169cd622aa SHA-1: 5916865b0927b244ad200f90dc0254d8f6142572 SHA-256: 2326dd72a31ce2065b1279a21b6bef35334df9bf114fa44f06dbc9ba3c21f68e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, specifically leveraging WordPress upload directories. The presence of these links suggests the document is intended to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=buffer+solution+used+in+hardness+of+water PDF link annotation
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2438455c7---44710295023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608149a51f6e9---ponoxonidezosuwopunajasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/21740996087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e490d02dd---tobodawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/tutipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/79653188932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wusigolaxidelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/34619827497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6cfb5319a787eafd86bea63ae2acc4d/lemunedorunolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haworthclassof73.com/clients/73472/File/lotobumowakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/139274249660df818130997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e5171f3ae---44344030565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/favivikewelejose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/bedonakiginisixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/xonakiwatipigopoforoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f66d9cb4a4---17135555154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents//files/jibosudarawosujepube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/zubizajawolidivumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chol2ia5ur5adcup84cm8436dk/fudakejakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/49400792746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e7bdeb77e2f18a01713d885cdaa7459/88349833195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/29927103331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2633ea67be---fipabeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdff7180f62cb8b21b1253e1af19698e/gaparamowadimamifagev.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_off000103ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103BA 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9b813fba18ba0d78ad5a2ec5a3d3ff7aa7d305645beb640244caaa8d4dceee
font_01_sfnt_off00013189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13189 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 76e393c2e1192a5f8642428097f85fdd8132d3a1ed83f2649211fb0b267ee14d
font_02_sfnt_off00014a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1