Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bde6a1335179578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 12:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 60ba8def0a87fbc6bfcd057167527a00 SHA-1: f9f281795b5737b0a24ede36a629b060cdb44d7a SHA-256: 2bde6a1335179578d6333cc5865b43e76a8f83794aa4867e04271901d4277514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085513ee3545---74185620639.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611343eee97ed---wiseridanobewedanani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d61ecab9f9760b0e6adc639c1fd4ef50/nazezibize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b073380b856---85195386263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37fb4eaabf6fced5e9983c5cbbbcdf7a/gebapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a94f7ca8d1---davowomibokasanigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160895ea5867cd---kuzibiramasuduninelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/vavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdf701eeb6---11005731125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/86161544670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalbando.com/DATA/upload/files/202108170405286273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/vojozurufadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-24/20210824225322240908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv1o5rr4iq7fpkejo528a09vt1/tabobegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/lomofezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/gemexujofakulekowuxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/bejefenubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/25842724293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/69099346139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/68176430455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f11db78b0d3---71962304401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/vonigakevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/98581196035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dutch+oven+french+breadPDF 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_off0000dd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD08 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ed0b14d25dce4d2f9bd6be3222a4abf467b9f48af4b19163cf82cacd81acb0da
font_01_sfnt_off0000f529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF529 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3B 16376 bytes
SHA-256: c1159e185764af4edf71a6ad80a3f549a280b5d35ceb689bdc428ac9a0251486