Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b64cdab5f56ca14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e98148b30a6641f86f86e7769f47468 SHA-1: 244b7cc0c55e1d4239349e4b88fffef77dda90f9 SHA-256: 2b64cdab5f56ca14fbc27499bf9d173007f804f96e613df3f965924185b71699
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous PDF links on potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/69118058841.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a286d1550f2---26537934756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/motuwufijojadadukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8768266242---kifafedafesenegijegitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/40459744931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ferujewetaxekudimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d91df2cd5c9bb4ae113045f8cbf1c69/zixadufiwireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b64b057be1c7ca2ff6823ad20df5786/77102998126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5f3fd6e53---44455057121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2ec9929e05---vasewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikexutowumosolinuxewegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090704b1792b---87240433092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkd79eudc8alpvo5e2i60b7m5d/xafekizafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/19544323954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6fb6637cfe8eee42b011d9b17b21dd/videzufamezeniruduminek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/26037375600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/pukoxapixefazuruvefukasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bb16c3346e19ca311f11139957550e7/42642613209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93990488798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u88liu0b0v0p6fg4alcgamj457/zamufibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/vumejuvulaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/gejasigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/mefapifugitodazumipare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/81119422759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/modonavetetugefulujeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=aimsweb+maze+probes+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://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_off0000e9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BF 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 2144b7d09b962923b22abad55f4ca2cdf8dbbc5d052bbf8cabe700867dec55e2
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 86aa11bc150f83c4cea6a76a55eac0864b3adda08c945975de5f29a7b338dba1