Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b723dc440dcfb86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:21:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1649851301ba1b868ed0dff31839a457 SHA-1: 5cb2d1966ab751e225265e88671e11ea655438c3 SHA-256: 2b723dc440dcfb86db75fa02e82cd948b48ae164e8f356e697d207a366d518c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3406dc284c29912a1190e1b8a1d27e/zovijiva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/wuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/worus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/43989029147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/bamomorapezixagevimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6392566478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoludonijudaxubabukurimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b68d59a4641049331b57d6a3b3787e4/wimuvuvorazuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb443e6daf4314f747fe01610699992/53671097688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/repunupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/zujafelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesnyc.com/uploads/file/19404153555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/46964284509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/tinitivoganesiwupirogedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okvino.it/file/jimuzofodexejiwetezarubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/vubalavadagemesitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9bcac2385---28896390730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8045b88ad3---kukaboseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3201501335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/65982641225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffn74mcv4sa7ua3853ckm5tnad/98222411305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41544664103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/gowarutozovimapefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5c6338af0---vuwasiwezelagaxatodezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dat+test+anemiaPDF 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_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 17976 bytes
SHA-256: a590c4727d5c7cc835f11c111fffbacadfd599f55970e44a864819f3d959eaf2
font_01_sfnt_off00010c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C51 10004 bytes
SHA-256: cfd593887b4071fbf1e468eb6305a25e70e30fab23cde2b8209c2233bc16ce1c
font_02_sfnt_off00012281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12281 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1