Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b32efa8adf64f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a4fe6717d28003d52cbef6f5cca356a SHA-1: e59a5515402105132a0cd430c9c991c86069a983 SHA-256: 2b32efa8adf64f41c374ae75f030700ca2cabe5922547cf94dc8bf45a6214637
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other suspicious domains. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, which likely host phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hot+toddies+meaning
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825a8330d6b0c87fc5868fd1fd70e3d0/puzozabugi.pdf
    • http://endemic-capital.com/uploads/files/xugak.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc239e32053---mijinojuxusujijujamawunor.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8f620a941---69013983399.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3841a508927396a4cc1365b263cbb6f6/5011652780.pdf
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxipijikamug.pdf
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soviruxijipifaxolega.pdf
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/67069793826.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb97f2127c---6639813796.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/gapevafefebojexezizujod.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fff2090163---86198056551.pdf
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/rozedolafararu.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cf7ee24c6---7980758718.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f715f606c6---dorul.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pscom5l85usadf6iml7o0sgfr0/19394541057.pdf
    • https://andana.us/files/files/levizekidutebulepijav.pdf
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/foduni.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd5166a0e470ff56050ccc774e110a9/xemoro.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1311c04952---zasipebub.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r56s4n3v1sgctqjdne91asu64t/73675913271.pdf
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/95667374126.pdf
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67019220202.pdf
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eddf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105f1.bin
a22a6f4344161b5c3ddab17c76a3575fca7c859be54c2b9425d0a4d6a9de0480
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F1 24116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001412a.bin
c42e0f4ef4ac0e15670471f0038223e9b36abe5e103d0b2520ef0215569bcc10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412A 5792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001555e.bin
92f2ae40debad12d626eda865212a1fe2f72e2bc86752a9b831ceaa6f667b4ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1555E 10436 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00016cc0.bin
94efaaf121a7b8be2d73b10f9629c07c61dc656dd4cc6cc4590dec25fab87361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CC0 19608 bytes