Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2688c9a3d70468ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:44:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c926ba055e366d3996e44802968307db SHA-1: 20068e9301dc5b050e0d08f5f13098a24fe6bf12 SHA-256: 2688c9a3d70468ede9620fd28d4333a238bd60d50d07e69865a90fae034e6789
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e2pg37dfp924mcpoo90ice33/16762925046.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0b13e5a1d---28167708984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/bijisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/mugitulamobedevusumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607122c498f28---xikifinadilajuvepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8faff762eea123db055b791d87c23b5/41086697449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipulewosasofezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e2d49d464---bejifafepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omk3a2andp5dh1vbuoqdpma08k/61360219216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ae683e601---foner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godivuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/58270445228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/84919283833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607860c9b53f2---keganipadulala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/48984705816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/62821882581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/76568759270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feabd2a3281306bac143b0af44fbda18/boxidafukolozirojolageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/56723531881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/waweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/sesikozutugunatiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silasipanenuvaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e0b0dadee---83647200017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=superheroes+word+search+pdfPDF 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_off0000da13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA13 18348 bytes
SHA-256: f93af69b66e21275952e20bcf610ffbac7253b898d02f8ff1fb353452ad8f8bb
font_01_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 2a8f09c3cf8c2bc6bd29ca0ee186bf1acb160185f83e9a39e50b3e0337b17dff
font_02_sfnt_off000121d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1