Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2971160bc25c5f0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bbfc9bd6fe369cfc5457dc2328cd1caf SHA-1: 7a5abffa9ab1636d1820d3971e9d6c69cd135a33 SHA-256: 2971160bc25c5f0df913cc0e7f234c3ca5f975faea8663ae93b3ae5c934766c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing campaigns that leverage external links to lure victims.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bak.vn/upload/files/87876609037.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb9356ebd3---rafenalebopudusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/57034634030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1d0300764---70706888409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/26833145513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyweisheng.com/uploadfile/file/2021080922581973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/diwapozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477c14eed8b7d52bdb9f07f788f24370/62182816376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc68bb5d03f043f910ac962490c21de/1807496629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/gofodekawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/sijakabeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/12273636889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee36686c58---76890571904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607717659e55f---51854378229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/terurivopudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f874161f4---33148757560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45f5f8d695---damakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7a5c7afd35---gerasixuzorutofomavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/sudezizolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drhmccmndjt639ue9dgef3k3ut/40365963039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/26902458998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/solfdfs97acjmdg66nf0d9spm0/zizovukiloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/55397260027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078692e9b43d---naranigemuwufemewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=red+lobster+nutrition+information+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_off0000bce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE9 10944 bytes
SHA-256: cc5128be615ce81ef9265dc392e8da262794e48815794c62a4bdd4c19f93fc68
font_01_sfnt_off0000d601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD601 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE13 15452 bytes
SHA-256: 431cd460bdd602c30d4e6228b4efaa81dc7d0cec0087fdcbd16c5fbf8d4ff262