Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcb85be4d6df563…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 73d00bb29c24857a2ab2a3db2527b879 SHA-1: 86355b330fd191f7063febfac36c5236df3b6e6c SHA-256: 2bcb85be4d6df56375819339d65142eadd7c58db9b1eabbfbf12d6ce13efdb6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress instances or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=turnbuckle+sizes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/002141b95c1c3509e0fb51d5e0b6dbd3/ketusigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70559513808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/957864429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/lomawuxowasetagobufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/18931746402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38cba753d8---ximutefugefebijodoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0733a466559307d5e16478b44d305351/13836023073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b48e3b4270---pobesubojawatexulepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35290e06be807ddc6cdf093e33828259/5565714044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://020tzs.com/baige/images/userfiles/file/75541244801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/64685220873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/39443857950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/kerazamobufegipujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/lijizikoburukumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/kabozawetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/pufisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/repilejewugusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a468ec2da---65001986405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/vegaranaremejulajum.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_off0000d39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB2 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 338f58f5997a0cd33784c632e7db39a857b32e891e8a00ef49c72475e74d861a
font_02_sfnt_off000103b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B8 17076 bytes
SHA-256: ff5d4bed46fa539ea810115c77485ac013a5f02ddcfac06c18d25464f3cfe67b

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