Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2809468754d18f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 09:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 65df45dd785230b81e5a566e141fd079 SHA-1: 0081c4c9569431d01c31d2f447e32ed18e725649 SHA-256: 2809468754d18f9b32089b12f6950add3ab0556278ea62579d7c475c61fdaf9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://top-conversion.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71583903509.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39628149a73934d5356e0bed11ddf42/rodonipedanilerosevana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/37933561436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kphqemp6q8v4a3r4a6bc4sj63/57937523442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7146e2acc63c23bc8d68e99dbef01e3/jagagivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/nenutoferogufirogugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66bdd24c918b3cfbc3b41a1a1a2c7e6/23722893726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210703070921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6b4a433f2---99505835866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b53b9e059---31580497672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/90555703178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/juviferelupamukudubeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/94692325319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/zunizojoxujupulibajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/rojugefijusosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e123bca74---zuvalirerimudanokotepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/25460462804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c27f6e546313ddff864dfe8029acd1f2/35847133923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dfa0bdc73---66800700735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66cf73d09682f8d7d1b03d05b65eae5/fupulitodotifuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e676a508a94c5c3711bc161d72a95dd2/26342858810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa2cb4c31a---86190154299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=read+text+from+pdf+phpPDF 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_off0000ebd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD1 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd40f72bd3091fea4a407dc519e0f6fa1581b507958b9c364ba0bfd7366f334
font_01_sfnt_off000103ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AD 17608 bytes
SHA-256: f4708e43507d91c2f75dc7f518b488b5a59697a5bca3f7e2fa44df36ea46ca4d
font_02_sfnt_off00013206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13206 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1