Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab097c9465580ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b5e0fa9b479fff482e37d5a27a814eec SHA-1: ff413590a386016db58b29a6fc804dc1c8a2374d SHA-256: 2ab097c9465580ad30e763213013f8760c3ccf0cc741a6c2c6c039c9b3712bcf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malware or facilitate phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a lure to download a malicious file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hodori247.com/uploads/files/70917365870.pdf
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/kiligoxefupizikarijunimig.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a2e8ecbcd---54454419538.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6326mpfu4o96thrpl8ku9qp9e/voloxunanasufobusar.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea5ad51c02---dudirewom.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076761152fcf---77600056574.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe1dcb603dbeaf07332b78a1805754d/59432759124.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6uqu26csutco2ku1dk5btb0r0/gusidajetiboj.pdf
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/tinimevevaxozivagomikif.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39335896ab74d2d3a723b93829f4377e/vafawotejatijaduvukote.pdf
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548dd822amserdsqqra0iohtmn/49289685601.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d3861666---pojoxadajozomulam.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f016390564---83047007333.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce94050ef71---xulokajep.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38aefc03d952fc3796095481a3b11df/gebuk.pdf
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/gogotosuk.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/vegimiguxudiwezopil.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9025a7527---joludurobozegifevix.pdf
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/77718071538.pdf
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/14450707802.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800c1a62997---kifekoti.pdf
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/21169153654.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l3mrsr3tjgqi62t005vdal7s2/21214135457.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6aa21ea2c8---fijowifeke.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=download+frp+bypass
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010371.bin
e6287c119ff94f0b17c2f66ce7e091f92192906f7177e401080953e810075e6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10371 23028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d90.bin
c39debfc02961d248298df2b3bc4a9bcf65fb37ae383a2545fdb3dbe4df18e6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D90 10508 bytes