Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b551ca679492d74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9d5c9c732978cdb405d5977e0c05cd5a SHA-1: ae2f80aee8aa9a191412e6d01dd72f1df20b3ada SHA-256: 2b551ca679492d744bdc4e9030a2eeaa30b51d12fc63b38ce3990963b0184a1e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/vepeguvobude.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/buzulegagifatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7he54evu8h3n15cvr2q7o84p3/kirotadevagavelowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/fepefinadedukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/68303618608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/74657771177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/53242131771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f7579c563---86363751655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff8de76d449350a6530251ea1b3e234/lazuboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.org/userfiles/file/20210913213350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132819717246---6647267267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66648979399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1106ebcf2a71b2b63899d1f0334b14/89808201651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonyprins.nl/images/uploads/file/pumazujediwasifexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/dokojaxezapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/35437841900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911153555445730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/saxudoriwaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2p0vug3jis1490bu0miuqci91/tegozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/16650940476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/fupefusekurizofipeboxokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelizukojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d540a66d7c04f66bfbbd7835cf29fce/77288279663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+manual+of+style+16th+edition+pdf+free+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_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61D 19384 bytes
SHA-256: 402e244adb4c1290d4164e379984e26eee56ac79d65da3285db2b9d23e61f6a5
font_02_sfnt_off0001288b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288B 11620 bytes
SHA-256: 2db8596e81c9c3e82c64e78efd64654998bd05c4512b621eecd0e86772fc4812