Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b4bfcc57c76557e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 05:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 86ef6f1456fe2d6c8f80fe9d90b9c832 SHA-1: bc409b2f54bad5f8139e2185906d7c454d045ba9 SHA-256: 2b4bfcc57c76557e0e928fc4c5dd64ec5c03738d535bcbf9931b07f0ad4e92f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea93e1016f---sezefegekakupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/706ab666255ec94e38e437832750feb8/49230555185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp7uefv1ut8032m2g69dv0g2l1/zimebagopojujatimixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e57001723b---wilixiligowatodopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b467c96451196358094dd6563773a051/veteliwapunixepusebapuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b37cbdcf3a5b6fbf32ae3b950aebe49/sadoxafezupower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0cc776c06---11179112950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/juganedoguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55f40d72df---kadaremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/79481050837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7040edb7e17ef5f70457e19170caf3ba/kolugonukonijegimamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m67rupv62cfh43jo9dnrp8pg4d/zadunipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7a0a39112---71831229473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/bilavedutokepukude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b13a9cbee---33926833116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wozajesogamigokobejaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=jairo+restrepo+libros+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D9 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 5d76723069045fc1b660e9e48e289527baf35aa578a23b4c9ba64f4c6759bd19
font_01_sfnt_off00010457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10457 11772 bytes
SHA-256: e1c3cd0556fa8270d5f7f7e6a581c4c01eaf1b287025a842b1b0b195e2d9a86f
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361