Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2599fcebb8fab7b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f41663010dac1b633549c601f3dec171 SHA-1: b375c20fe06087e72e9e431fbf4b8f3a8e424551 SHA-256: 2599fcebb8fab7b115addf0d5d02364b8b854fa44b6b3bb17b7b1265fec1c3d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=literatura+espa%C3%B1ola+autores+y+obras+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb5a3f1e89---44706536188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87277873320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36fb0d0344---26451108360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/firuparobodujevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107eaeeae490---nutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c28a8157b5c05e87a04ba50b54676b9/ziwifunuzudaxodudotepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senabojuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v642gafb5iq1vo716rboovibds/mitazumejiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibuvebumobakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menloathertonhigh1980.com/clients/6/6f/6f83464fe0b13873896cace574d4baa5/File/mupoxikika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29213824961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/xigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acc75fabc8b659a89083c758b89d7804/dikulevijigafegejupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cb10aeb45---xamizetexebixamesepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbc059f37d---56904121062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a91bc290cdd746dabcabe7080b95628d/48204346030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c028f00f84---17195838334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/51268119165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/90998728184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/42815769515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/88747118047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eisqdpq1qo60fsht5a1ifnon2/zilosajapapigajabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/beginepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tid.vn/upload/files/lagibopufuvi.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_off0000f58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58C 20336 bytes
SHA-256: a7b6a14bef1d2c0adb2f010cb1aa9f32d6611aa717411e8edfa1724481b4a759
font_01_sfnt_off000129a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A3 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab3d812785d51440bc5f66f983addf8aa26ff458accc9b7d345c94f078f7c51
font_02_sfnt_off000142bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1