Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcb4f04e7711499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d32685d73febe42b97a1b594852f443a SHA-1: 93a260cce59921c21bc05fc67bc89533e3a50b3e SHA-256: 2bcb4f04e77114995a1abf5414a4765870c0a312fb5dab67273f8405bfd12d95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The PDF structure and embedded URLs, particularly those hosted on potentially compromised sites, are indicative of an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f091868997---ladajugen.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/88580481502.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524f5b8bf6a4732e628356ec38c23a4b/rixugupemolemeda.pdf
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/95916378060.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da5f4f7c5e1daaf8e87be69ca58fbef9/mefum.pdf
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/28395004845.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/031758099931.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcfa94e86b---zajetunekov.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bffb692849---namirejuf.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r53je95ubb13m6u6n2026jv357/deloxubirinoputabebodovin.pdf
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/67186190879.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5eb14203a2063c6bd47bffceb8da95/wominolimaviwalubasulu.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6944fb0dce---12472069868.pdf
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/govinedovuva.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717463693b8827af461cd8e1020defdb/91452670195.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e039949dbe14a7b9543c324d678c29b2/88937206030.pdf
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/84514416068.pdf
    • https://pasarantogelsatu.com/contents//files/96058311469.pdf
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7bd3f4d00e844ee4636f6a7b36b0dd/71469651733.pdf
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/27772827072.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088df6129fdb---wilig.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/81603333775.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=finding+parallel+and+perpendicular+lines+calculator
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d067cdef2aa3c297e63867d4cf3a65da/wibevoguxekifujutor.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f381.bin
bdbd6770173ae48d0e1d3ea46a6ae996d1c21318b7c07d621bb285fcf84f500e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF381 10764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c25.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C25 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012437.bin
58359e1258b06a963addb39d6f92ef29be9fe8ae88a7d59856a02e488f73693b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12437 17668 bytes