Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bdaa01385cc1476…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:59:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ef1d2460e012b6c1b0332dcbc60ce96f SHA-1: f8eefe6f0386d03c608487d21ae63df25086c0ed SHA-256: 2bdaa01385cc147692d1e5b2dd0997d2c2d4379880f93d11b15ece21ec5958e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to direct users to malicious websites for phishing or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but containing embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ismet+%C3%B6zel+erbain+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://smith-williamssisters.com/clients/d/dd/dd6cbc7353a6ef31c13ccaa63ab862ac/File/nafumogugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufemalegetinune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7u15h77mqfe8417t611ua563o6/11356024842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/tawowegowakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/29968344388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03bd9dfc821b1942baa075b8bb2689b3/86077513130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/bogubirevazulikewalufelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b87d6471e---13874271497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432jvdogkfue41cliuqcr8d06l/81175687198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609708a82f7c6---zeduroxiwawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/78148484421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veejaytechnologies.com/userfiles/file/jotujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/55092456136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/85612518083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ac853e018---fimoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/siwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/raziturowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f005173689---84582923861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/dirivepusopupekadiloboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/64960829095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/kufexaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96627765877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/tanavotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072235f1273c---bewopokomifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ce1b16b00d---99833676156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/businekolepigaruxofuko.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_off0000e227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE227 19408 bytes
SHA-256: 02dab70bda00dabcc574de691134110bb5150c8b13bf7654e1ac86ccc74d5f21
font_01_sfnt_off000111c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E0 10904 bytes
SHA-256: aaed06a92ee3334514f9756ccb2ca1c5666d018604b32d2682477fe99ee2836a