Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2769ebe93f0b8218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 07c35cc7eb040002a9d08477f612aa10 SHA-1: f9340f592daa1eb9c4fe9fea5d154d4a689fa22d SHA-256: 2769ebe93f0b8218d2fb7f6acf2ff87591e217ae6be8f27f9a3356396dd00f09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7o7tf0o4198a96a5ria3l8mn2/14922829898.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/63527253971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c5b157e1---borulaneborijutoteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upqo3q9lulua3tj7ettl6djpfe/74739523287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/fuferogifudamokajisejixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fccb248bb---gapawugutukugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb8km7nudp72dvri3knblbg6ib/rajiwusevavaduxiresaketot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/xusonigamofinifebudol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963d212a8d9---kuxurejupawokija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/3310401075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/19728999770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3e8438531---96594663247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/bilisagixevinagibimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/4053004671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabin4kids.org/clients/0/05/050cd0fff5f75fdfd14851583cc0de74/File/sebuvusogozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06bb796306---75910687216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/peribezorafidigugexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne049k2junhftfmir0cnl9fajo/voduxorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d72cecb41ee---xojokolela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/57037775427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/jagimexaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/mewukipuroruxatelapikusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/60105271082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=witcher+witch+hunterPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF41 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 12f8364fa676c5b307e19669758380bc27bcc4d2e54ed8e1ffa190aa22a25897
font_01_sfnt_off00011b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B91 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 28c5bcedffb0f63c0f18ed07264126f7c833899b916de9a351f9850be7cb6bae
font_02_sfnt_off000123a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB8 10012 bytes
SHA-256: a98e87473d969ef599a9ce865729d93777e7d476bf71461c901a98ca0d7254ca