Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b9a0de9cda4b24e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:01:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0488c6829bb8d6d649edee401f73f9d9 SHA-1: c6a51e8d961afaee6dd8beb19d137ce28b13c0f4 SHA-256: 2b9a0de9cda4b24e9bbdf4c3685fae7856589a89550266207fb57c7e81ca8d8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute or host malicious content. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf86286f06f85634c0fb4a708a39f41/49253997385.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/26022303587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdbc52a41f---44245772826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9abc62d9c---98428796845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/dedetuvenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/mudipowisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3999330bf7eff67bd02d490465aaafb7/fobobosuwunodajezusawesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgbugg5ghqtjrcd03q01l8djr2/xuvozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bf9698150---30698778090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/raparedakonofogokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd3b2c8305e---dokivugivolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents//files/35574798182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/92745242620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d433250c7---tijafaxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/67823919130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078252078480---wajedofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/vopixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/45139932107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/wujamakopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/dapaxisinufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/kodopukali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed84fb53b88e5e10f64e3a084cf735e/11827167745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/rodarusaratisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/99190203755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/towupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fnaf+2+free+download+for+androidPDF 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_off000101a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A3 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 071b29d78e60785123f93a53d09a4aab595ecb67c0ce4e34c7cd7d0a7f231a8d
font_01_sfnt_off00012c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C79 10264 bytes
SHA-256: f111c8d528482b6d27f87cac56c3b831203d29731a58978dfdc503d60b74a309
font_02_sfnt_off000143b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1