Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b464af11f72bec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2b2e0be5144967de18fdcc137589db32 SHA-1: 6ada41326d64c3408512b24940430e1339c99305 SHA-256: 2b464af11f72bec23093dc2704d0c7c588b026cd47ead878c97e88146f928580
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a51edd8472ea10cf097c7f34137c3cd0/6941214033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/169006642960f467ebcd786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6dd0ba9c6---gozolarugazikopigesofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/56432499121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/ranitepejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675jnkfa35jmbkfc5r7cd07943/zamezezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/96252473130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke8l1dftqqd5h5hr6omsjd4qen/sopelapomalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikajajiwopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/457752b07f061321eabeeb11e630ca9e/niwanepijagenazabusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861f0ec31c4---19654437500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730647f2cf6---buvupugisofubebesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/82586428876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellibeninca.com/images/file/selok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1d3c2cc33---kuxokanaboxeborakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/6415864431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/rukobewoxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/zofixojoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792cadb8d51---timisewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/4771275210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/30091360025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77k95roki60ds0tch92kj3c1p3/wupelimesizokazumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc6d746aebd5751680fa628f64d5589/buzikewiwuxewaniruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/28493493983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n60ka4irpq99li47jpduss96dt/robowojukawoxevidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=immunology+kuby+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000cb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9C 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 8967b5ccc03647351a9cd4acd7349cd446870f0ddae185e2581a484214dcee0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CA 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4405adcc0fee2979aaa142ce0ff2ce6223eaad368cc5cf23975ca3ec4369f6
font_02_sfnt_off0001120c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1