Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b9d9bd57ab82d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:29:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 74afbba3d537dbffc35a46ecfbd992cc SHA-1: fde199eec97cdd3a25886ca5d1465e1511690bab SHA-256: 2b9d9bd57ab82d73fafdf9da2e9666cf31aaf8be0faf0ac67845ca70d1af4802
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3e432ab6b---14753415462.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6b6c28cfe---gujopove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39325700085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflcops.com/clients/83267/File/98658138103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a486050a46---75076566911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca915e1ce0---32528654456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/50769951311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815abf7c538---97585556672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7232d9dd15---vuvofelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d568c291ba---larikukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ab174f4cc---fupokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/32149006644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/wekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/91827091313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/74494129006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d26aa674a8---debefodenivesatisidunamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c32f4f5b4---danubamavalatotabixuseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81db6bb100b2be4f5fcea4c26e40cb6/dirunaralaxawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04b295b5be---gafakufetovugefopabuxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/89126639548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/mejulodufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/basepominagerulubavelifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/92255771232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a066d6951---60498405564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=codigo+penal+argentino+comentado+pdf+2017PDF 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_off00015de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE8 11168 bytes
SHA-256: f984b96b4eea426fe2b0825abf4bf7ac6993607329eed43b6ec278844971c370
font_01_sfnt_off000177ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177EF 19692 bytes
SHA-256: cf0ee14470241e9ad5914469b20cb9194dde2cf56b65e9f8d3d301dd7f642983
font_02_sfnt_off0001a98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A98C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1