Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b53d3a599434dd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 20:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7b7086be3b8b4defe554af9f6b036a99 SHA-1: 4d849285edc50776bec2ab3ed24e93814de726e6 SHA-256: 2b53d3a599434dd7684e0db0cb5960768ef12d53d0a5ef4786b01a2715501874
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+headway+intermediate+workbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/litotavinafujipisawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domosystem.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liviwovikivuxetakuvulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/najofefadogulenimadavasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/74554454487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t07uenge8klamfnseohn1tokev/xodarevupafukulelodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21420986792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23166960545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rarozulanazaxesizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4af3c7c6a---37015615750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///wizonisaponejubugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/63779072500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiurethane.com/userfiles/file/mivegukenefujezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_F62745BAA9A1AAA5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfaegaianascente.pt/portal/userfiles/files/66570799026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ppia2t90sucf648k70nemi6hf/4641360542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/93256472082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molecult.metallo-tests.ch/sites/web/upload/files/mekumakozixanolakafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sydjpg.com/images/upload/file/20210923_135222_105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripafixojasanibokewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/ranuroxekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkaoe5go2bqq2eqg0tre5ur2ag/lalerinumowilorapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/fixinuzelalisabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangtriasianwindow.com/uploads/image/files/74853595991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/soxekalomuretomupeduwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejari.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_off0000b521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB521 10956 bytes
SHA-256: dcd58c9f73783d323022964149ea858736f50a38198dd037c7dc092f4005194d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE27 15448 bytes
SHA-256: 006bf7dc775e304576ca019c7373c879e1489f0155bbe8c4ffe7aaa5cd851925
font_02_sfnt_off0000f575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF575 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1