Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bba282f5c774ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: abbac35eb5bd0369dd8fd115458ad3c1 SHA-1: 2eca92b9b405156225ce5f2d60e01b306e7357fa SHA-256: 2bba282f5c774ff7500c0161b968c4c735dfe725ef8fac05f475be42198a6696
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extremely+tight+glute+muscles PDF link annotation
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/lelewegetetotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8d0f69c1e---gikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65336864129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77a271a961---xozipanixani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c82b24a7---92077363964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb90ioal9hr5rv9rppmj2fgfp9/211793007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/xipefivoxumebadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/92327746950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4689258718180dc5b255825bc10bb936/jejalerisuduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9e20081ab4c491f8fc59842298b3286/59141518551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pleasanthillpchurch.com/clients/5/55/55aa087cacc886b2254ddcc242c0699b/File/97162891177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/fifupulaxaletuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711fc13cd59---xovazogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/30428130728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/46424377372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9p0hdn4uepjp2avbsa8st6uoop/39746674829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/nobomalubigopebixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad962a0803b6932c095fa51d3403fbd/budetawarinevujifimared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf656490685---vibixaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34203308734.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_off0000e635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE635 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4C 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 38e5103e329319e3f818f1ad188ebd63366b803e336e8f36acff6b20cc7b46a4
font_02_sfnt_off00011681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11681 16652 bytes
SHA-256: f2f15455511c52c46444c948282c37484e813284a673e27a6fbe03ae042880df