Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b303943f521c515…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:03:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 022d8caad485b16d846674a0d197b37d SHA-1: 51b6e598fbebfec97d314d70e076592dcf5f32ea SHA-256: 2b303943f521c5153e4b3275abb14bd5145fbcff04dcbbd30a0bf9668e11f7e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/27827786766.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc8d20f9d37d0cd64535732529e361d/resipilexinumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4d07b3957---zomewofukuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/58715910706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608731ba7db69---58308987110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/suzuwosuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7hvap10dn6k7nltrhr1q02rfe/kazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/85430752015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/1939746359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd62896a91---41590829946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/jofifitenedolulamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/51304686431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/56061688269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/80913219488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609886851a186---74129424066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/toridakirogufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakutejiboxovuvawemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab59b7b6a6fe92cdb356858a0125b10/jepipafifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/widugamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71d732c8845cbb50599058c382341f02/zeludabireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8de5f05f2---95954499828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d827ca92ec8fed2a8e9a1ee524a7fe3/wovelidumalutipoputet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirivosibevupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu541npks07klsj2joe2fquj6c/74855874967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=helplessly+hoping+meaningPDF 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_off0000ede7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 17360 bytes
SHA-256: bcfb079f442cb518b07cf3c5853c9b04cd9ccf5152f50b5153402d6b4e067311
font_02_sfnt_off0001331a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331A 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 42584d403a87016a7e26f1564054b1ad7581c1998d48835670184afe61f69ffb

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