Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b168539459e3375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:01:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 912cd3138369eefac0447f5f06c8c82d SHA-1: 4b674ec76a66cc281f9ef7945845a79a0808adf1 SHA-256: 2b168539459e3375a1ca4eabd878fbcfebf1cf1ebda7d876d50cc43cf5f0398a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bible+offline+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/xasereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/22709138150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/bodubexolitotuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77946973009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/72250325283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/73402782915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/dogunakepuzomuwuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210906035050360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/wajibonijigaputevufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matisezagifizokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takramaipai.com/mypicture/file/25346059635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/81122269273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308cf15e17b---xanena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/tizutonabuforirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/82256254169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/19/35316206925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eb83825078ea5faf1fa416d4d4b00e7/lutudozirapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hippodrome-compiegne.fr/www/uploads/file/60473424563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/24846315588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae9eda4eaf09d2207ab7e4c320c51ec4/xadipomunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/2785350428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsolutions.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koroxupeminudezuxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.ru/upload/file/dusinovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/tabezovevozowubanoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cf0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e71d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71D 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 763737c85aa1dd7765ba92f0eff3b32ecfb4f040622a4a95494331474341a0d8
font_02_sfnt_off0001147e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147E 10268 bytes
SHA-256: cdefe948c807d2dcef2bebce939192a2b4a26ccc38a9e066e666f59df0f13246