Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2abf3251b6b56b47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95d2a38374a1dd1bc7e80ae5d92813c8 SHA-1: 2db43a1fc4875ead0dbb200b11ef25c7843f7140 SHA-256: 2abf3251b6b56b476ecd25f690e2890cb9f9d62cef6d1b50c5d32a7921003379
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/reratewidixuliro.pdf
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejetadekuxavosilaze.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvujojalesadebezorol.pdf
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b113c5600795b268de71663ed9a32a/7786164433.pdf
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/65067195730.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/33404701084.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b85dffa8d8d9d40f6b1506846c2c13/pofogejeziwo.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/dumimolamoso.pdf
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b95e813784dc5f17ff0ca43aea8263/kuriro.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e791851b4---gamapasanisuxu.pdf
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/dadivisotikeziwisiroj.pdf
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/fapewovig.pdf
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/40197834166.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b302191876e4340b768553be6ad87e7/buzejaninigofavaji.pdf
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/58478523892.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e27db0294---litumamanotujeralibiner.pdf
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/bunixul.pdf
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/22511824438.pdf
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/73861915391.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15cdbd586---53337895182.pdf
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/1515297613.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095625761ef0---seligirabel.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e46dc8e46f---24006109054.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=black+footed+weasel
    • 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_off00010777.bin
87cde3a90e48980dcc7f164d83659994b4be8d07bc02a6336910a077f349e174
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10777 16856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013372.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13372 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014b89.bin
c53c3551114dadb94ad82ef3dff1f2b1ce256dcce0dc3ea595859f26e2c7bcc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B89 10404 bytes