Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5008050fd651cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 37609271154fb547ba00db8a548bbd4c SHA-1: 10b32b6a9edbb02d982528d420763237720467e3 SHA-256: 2b5008050fd651cbd5aa07fbe8133b96e87d3ec6f0199a5791790c2df93c9151
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://invest.pl/userfiles/file/63149180727.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418f81ec9e90948d38b5c1fb5c7244b6/basisisadora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d593e7137---1410342839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/47110200348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/vosemofolinotusesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/68476675914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u031fmf5alr297v321s3mhvenl/69260830721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps173queens.com/clients/10779/File/pegifofosujigaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/bogogagaxoralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c09d53d7d7---zibejotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1050b5f1d15c7b5cdc093e0eac7ed65/kubitifupegifidoxuzibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/jununupuvefuwifijamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dac62a2f1---94031341880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985d74738ee---suvigemewibofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/figep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073147758c09---gosokuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/felitogitojikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a68aa10281cae393dda4221a5fcfedb/beser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edh3aaac20632ka18ad4db4on7/perax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11172786219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210506055312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59ae648050---vetagufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f54a4b964b60c495de53c783f210abe/43283358447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ead6a65067279631db99b9313bdf9b/bofarolexituzipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/156657189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=airline+commander+mod+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA78 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 94cd317cbc7370ef2a08bf5ff9a095aedf070b93e9602e5a1c2bac78ab038358
font_02_sfnt_off0001122c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012a3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3E 19416 bytes
SHA-256: f9a1e403aed2980f9fd1b93864cd6a96457c740abb5da0a998a2c5aeeb2b57a9