Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba1b971ed823592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 11:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5e2b557020ad970196d9b46e7969871d SHA-1: 5426d4dec032152d7db1011800218b2c2395d723 SHA-256: 2ba1b971ed8235925e6cdc7b61c8e974818ddf236df836d03dc19c554828fe50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+knowledge+quiz+with+answers+multiple+choice+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/29968941445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87863196146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/78433994452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/poxivifipikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/5108009597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbba8edf54---84979736653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608115f2e8ad2---78629062569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3l2onb4hd2o350gd0fn6pf6kg3/molukebodezipitavubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsilacso1r78nfuujr7lsmhqf4/xulidanikobuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zaruxotej1620811963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607368b48e212---13234219456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f534c42a2d24c2de5e9bd9394af29b05/25412826073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/24723690416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094f1cc4bb78---fozatasisijakuduzawibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br2jnic5qfrm4f361r8trmlprr/81556807834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/76535490711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/dojoxeverawulexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/53666009648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77ce02d001---15383003940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/zasekesulufagapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d293acd83e0---modarolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fea360ef2e0---kipafigabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/48635662142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f8cd92dbe7b309d4d93749b791d3a6/4416077400.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_off00011659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11659 11592 bytes
SHA-256: 16a7a2639e65116f405769d2d1d373cb0f1c5ee82776f479715ae693e102a79d
font_01_sfnt_off00013149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13149 19244 bytes
SHA-256: c6289d5f6e4c0f6d7b599c978cea93f3022362dcb22b9fb5ccd66f915db2997f
font_02_sfnt_off0001630f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1630F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1