Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b957834cc5479cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 07:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7e79afb81ca756d925fa585b21f9533e SHA-1: 683a188d4efd55827c34231339b0facc5e7a7bfe SHA-256: 2b957834cc5479cc8d4deacd406704aef616c79904b4f256bd69fbb16f91be3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or malware distribution points. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious PDF activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+optical+density+class+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84u9telpg0v6bh1j4g8rt1q7tg/99609661585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebranchoflife.org/clients/3/37/37a84c4c47f147f839b5d5a44bb1b86c/File/65982182604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95e717d59f---49887061917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f27cd8323c3---tijaketixisagomusalevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfb61cafb32c8ee5aca637d52545165/31674191947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b753abebb1---xolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dea9a570fea747baaa985e36fb3ed605/mozefavebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/gorejezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/paziguvedomagisidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e07e1b41288---lebikawivexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/13793444772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8763cfca3---rugakurufobajikamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/jujetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/99465885682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/dojisivubafefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/pifusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca2c877c6c---3742797681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7262613841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/jurimokepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i60dsejmp7pckk10rq11bqdtpn/17336919664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72612444793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c124239666---pogiwifezewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffd28c680a---fezikupatemopedowogebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/31521181528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/12502208117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093087ebf1e7---mikurixufafetubamamak.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_off0001237d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237D 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 0c495049fcc98c554dda8d3a0af5741fa9c1fc5dbf98274d3aaa94f3d6b76d21
font_01_sfnt_off0001539b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1539B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016bb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BB2 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 52c1ef5e15bd4643142042f01c26bf7fb55e8b3493a8b45dbd5c55fc19029a0c