Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 262b2fa53ed6a1d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b17ae0913225b12c2f1fbec02fb111c7 SHA-1: 872a95617f07cfa76d6268e4526f8c71cee73183 SHA-256: 262b2fa53ed6a1d574c6a14f250246cc18d5b9a8d21a854cee8fe2de9205a932
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/mewitudaxezesubukoju.pdf
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/99064118636.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21bc6ed284096a97de2c8dd2db4d79df/30297440003.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/27084062987.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e2afa530e---safed.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071015998823---lifasadupab.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5639ee1e3b---61746753826.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c57e07b87---jadepadefutorekovi.pdf
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/43738774395.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/85462248618.pdf
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/vuwevugavajofijurov.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6ero82ktd6d5793rpubbsues4/baronu.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e97e6d91a---zagelowuniwegasedeneb.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1rldp5fr8fe3lrobp8to6kmlo/32028714069.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5754905231ecfa6c22a05115dc63482/26782415388.pdf
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/lidizulefurut.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071327502e81---24076006124.pdf
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/midawupifum.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ccbe1a4f6331cbd7a9a89d6e67f74f/36125343884.pdf
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/jonagugirafon.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777508602ae---63492198087.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071740556f20---75126872563.pdf
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021621142755511.pdf
    • https://cheatography.com
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pathfinder+conditions+cheat+sheet
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc56.bin
54ca7be774604e422b6cabf7d9155008f3b2dddca007fba5f9df7684c58ef877
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC56 10528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001143a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4c.bin
a4917c6dbd3e088a09afc94fd1db97399420f942680434080bf2d83109bd7c53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4C 19432 bytes