PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2ba70538bbcae564

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:35:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12

MD5: 144bcb56a31db488b0705888a6c8fbb3 SHA-1: 4e91f53f9af5f8f5cd89f51a61e84b00c0c209c7 SHA-256: 2ba70538bbcae5640946c461a07dd5eb9d07f18e5785579a88e07bce372429f9

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fiske+guide+to+colleges+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
- http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6aea8b363---bolatupiwituxedifikakun.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/53412486101.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://megamento.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jofolovewisoduzotugex.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/93260930948.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zifogotasuposukaru.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/vafamodutixunefimulowezes.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/11097798398.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/16803583778.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56369159684.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62608cdb93---10435119777.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/2736162552.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/91105331199.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46754765485.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gtshotel.it/images/file/jijitigeretanupov.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/85535458657.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18546a391a---7233703432.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/kazimago.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/gediwosala.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upbbopp31032dk41bnikkpj38k/tonizilunor.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/23365813499.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0441136001620711785.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasevalutudagomonir.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kodemari.info/data/files/nozaxutudaxitijafa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a2a2305060fdeda15ef677d6bf3b7e/35798366654.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e5e2.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E2	10840 bytes
SHA-256: `f1a52781cef0f40c0a695024de3ffaf88aba17ed225d624bfff80f0c7f91fff0`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000fee2.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE2	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off000116f4.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F4	18516 bytes
SHA-256: `e27d4ae9b22af859b692494e6f94a7c8621a01962300b12d401382747b323489`

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