Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ad146bf29611bb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-05 02:41:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 16b787b2026720698a9030836675c720 SHA-1: 0b5ec50e11facf525c3eed3f4c7e219b15025bf3 SHA-256: 2ad146bf29611bb513f997681575c862037e7db884cceea7736f7b8c87543767
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF is part of a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e1539c97c34de42327b555d4af2aec/91348428417.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064ac81c2e0e7c1a01c12f9d622b7dbe/76973684514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b71ce78219b---89659272774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/41763651356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d572e7920---11158996476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/90941569063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/2810950618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/febawatokubojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021072921550073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d92d8e37573e3704036e32cef2f04f/52357323039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a076bc17fdf---dokivebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrnchina.com/test/images/ckfinder/files/kuwugavinujimidiketejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/80113259598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1798920be3---77515484320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ed6b85853---vudatobamogipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisiwuzupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09360851ea---25226391657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/fevufatagileme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88277b0805---23172472493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/47778314493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbwmd.com/uploads/Files/26178018712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2822a1b0ea---konenura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98908d5ef4310f0eaa39bebb6700b750/99343782355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=after+the+first+death+audiobook+freePDF 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_off000102fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B13 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 276b431df24f0089b7379a0cbebdd7da24fc015d6c8ae7f1b89505c8b1299b4e
font_02_sfnt_off00013385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13385 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 7537e2c73fe667bb35bb801df25a7971716d1763a8a51ce98ccef856b4b55e73