Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2baa6692610a1c22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9cf51aea3b36194eb7a754434e34b995 SHA-1: 34b085d9bfe9ab0a7ff30c607b30a21799dc2e4a SHA-256: 2baa6692610a1c22c4d7a2ddf8d3c3032f43cbd983d286851981338c08ddddf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is intended to redirect users to malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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=the+tiger+rising+genre PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67675569fd---86823568518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/vakowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/45590672718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/soker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/tolalanireresulizixowodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082232912258---sokejajodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/21121489272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grossfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/00/00c8ca1d7e0432e0ca4c178cf0a97985/File/59417671214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ae55cd456---larewibuziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16997852194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a316a8d29d1---45461395994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/95487019344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/kufazuliruvudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3626d9c872607b68e1c2473d7ef03b1/sumezoxowivaziluxusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024b2ea22502fc73a3f84d2825292e9a/vudunetinulavavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h762iav7l85nhprs02vdldkr0/76735451412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/4931395498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/tejawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/4951186276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/pijijatapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088197293bbd---zonivemotinuruxaxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251e5518c4---33807555501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b804f7a202e---siroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90af98379---mefedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/bisufoxi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE7 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_01_sfnt_off0001055e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055E 10020 bytes
SHA-256: a8987a6725120e75d767db329f79b8e7fed7f02fbac3469966b5810342fea6d0
font_02_sfnt_off00011b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B88 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 8bbcdbc56e1d7ee8d53f9d31baf42af62cbaf366d7356bdb94dabcef69c2d0ab
font_03_sfnt_off00014a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1