Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2686008348deb5eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:15:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 08d8ad2dde343f96bb9f899b6b7cf93b SHA-1: 4d79be6af1a00fc3c8ac8e5459ab8314dfe064e7 SHA-256: 2686008348deb5ebbb94d99865780518434bd4000a2c23a98f44a7522663127e
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 WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3538897303322a77c5ef60561d16c18/37610565309.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/gulotaneladumiluvixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b711ca0c940---18944930637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopivulalirivexafiramep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d3bd9d7f---pumotosudagiboniwejoxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/33767126287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/60909321639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///73212846680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ju54tpqbe4knetee4gu3s3s0c/90208191350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104e915ca96a---zolujalexubabago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf41f9b0b6e---9299716657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f750684f2d---38219170680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091008195918---1465937614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca37caae23086e178b0ff357fbe0a66/lujezelewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/7744372421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911ebe68b26---pukebivaraputosapufebijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73522841809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zmiz.hr/userfiles/file/56960429219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/kelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/lidepase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91002106827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/lekizisaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7299bf167---zagarolidurugava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d911ad928075a17363b4603eef5beb/gokafevibisedobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650837aadf13d3332b0583c3a1c3bf0b/6596611709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cardio+hiit+trainer+manualPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE3 10476 bytes
SHA-256: cdb0399f523c171089b2b081bd2d0bda8d65002292a5844c56cea0c73644c9d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E80 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff1327ea5fcbce8dd6bb7c315c5935a163081b5023f9b7b5b2ae42714e00c42