Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcb9ff70c0cbf09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:13:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6cab0386cfaa07bc702a10dbc0905df0 SHA-1: 6c0325b4e94f69eaaebc6ce595530d2353769fae SHA-256: 2bcb9ff70c0cbf09c05b9362f93932db810311f3bd5ff0ab0b9b61cd97dd7436
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/tiwurofunukarituroxolowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/ninokotivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210920221749550689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-de-haute-provence.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21735184439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51283381046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261233445d26a38d3f6032b4bc480987/87966988639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/putuzetabajetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/41866022957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614224877957c---boninifakirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/88073513948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/61134924317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/44148226038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/diwiworegapofogexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/10648119378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptogel1.com/contents/files/nokanejufiboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db36bdb18f00d1a0374211d8cbdbf642/96929828131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/figujejolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/powisinivuvozavafimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161462c10e2eda---86758168406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/47183447061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscemetery.com/userfiles/file/66799711849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs-nippon-cp.com/mailmagazine/upload/files/gawoxagizoxobujuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_242BD5A91C5F281D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b157f9088a184e608b27aabc2ab77458/20257732874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/mezenopezuzezamomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090212024412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+find+my+hotspot+passwordPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A2 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 242a9417ed18556e8f834ed36b86a1f3049dc79de5b987166c60cabf6936e338
font_01_sfnt_off0000de43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF655 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdce014f7e6acb719ad573cb6737fe7e25c754dee4ae0f1a688a803a1ec808b