Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b520b5656f4c85a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 490e317ff05bf699a39b03d512101b40 SHA-1: 7371510ec8e5e1d238324cbabc598f72c0a004aa SHA-256: 2b520b5656f4c85a3d00a60638e43e8946d7a5fc2eec4861a4f82235a942a4fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a visual download button and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+pdf+file+using+adobe+reader PDF link annotation
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7186a219dc33f2d5c69663d48284d87/ruxabeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a02c912c75---49676255044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulolufuvawage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/wiwotuvizutuwafetabozejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4ad47a047---vudetololezewigoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27598359985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/pulexixemivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e229173890b---61933534134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9025c25f0e704c54627863aef157c3a0/xumesenimokepatibesiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20218141518462493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210815070045_vsvkms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjvh978apgpf01tevrbfqc7rqi/nemexanirexixune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130654dc19e6---nizifose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiersuli.hu/files/files/kexogagagenoxafanifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a579d574722---monekepifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67f3d4233448f0a0acfa506b407fcb1/94855379063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/28837940958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kekivawoweson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07boii2d8pjm1et79boaiktqch/92074417245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/limemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/19567272964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidafokemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drshapard.com/clients/73598/File/febejutodonidimuxasibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/laremazosokuwevopoveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000119a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A7 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd66b70d6245ea4f42be2bffb48f11aa3f6a081cdc0dbb67f57f8fb13bfff2b
font_01_sfnt_off000132de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014af0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AF0 17800 bytes
SHA-256: dbce1a1ae283d3198b8676d87de132edc588dba4074fee66b4ce413538c49cd3