Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2964efed7665f5f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 23:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 39223aa15ae78e03859043e92b554339 SHA-1: 963d1182ffb4afa3dbe0d9f4cd3c563e74063844 SHA-256: 2964efed7665f5f0c7cdc6045492384408a97c0a0ee55bb329d07e28af9e3db6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'One Punch Man season 2 online subbed', likely a lure to attract victims to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8622e1d684ce160ff19dbff5473c7b/buvutekaxakomegizonaxep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/menonorisusinipepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa75b1c715---mokibaniselifajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3v1jm99vilf58q4409sm9jg7/6045470669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ksavoein9muhg2p0icv57v1u7/bavizubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415rc61nm55e8dav1l1m8hq2if/sugegenubavelawedowokina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e3881869d---75955177708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejazezisuruxikutawawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad780ab3dbf---72666615549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/basapofiguwikofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/56820808735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d69dc353d6---41926814371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0kftb6iagdjuac5ikulbditsu/zijumopijoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11a5c27ff54bbd79842a87e8eb2b627/vevamomuzisufowilemegikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94b320aab1---989481736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5bhkgf84imqnjt0no00qf06ue/pononuwulenekaseronut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=one+punch+man+season+2+online+subbedPDF 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00013173.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x13173 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca39848c4895f00bbd4efbbedc382a4fe10cc26129e7cf16acfeb6f2f25b852
font_00_sfnt_off0000dff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF9 7200 bytes
SHA-256: 08358d72c10074823f6f266f776d0857bb418ab9c756f10df53e5fc57561852d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F7 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 90a2e9acd91fb15521b526c1448ecb46d8496b837132e0b66ab19747214e00ff
font_02_sfnt_off00010a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A82 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 88820313b8e188cc1c4458db2da7f2f898454f047133588a396082bd59c7b8b7