Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bfc46f62772d2be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 870a9e76ce0ba92dbd582fecd24e0351 SHA-1: 6f5da947c2075ea986c238f08f1b661cff956f99 SHA-256: 2bfc46f62772d2be42dcf1ffded7346f9b44c309925aef39b609943a56246743
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ao3401a+datasheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alliance-vietnam.com/upload/files/wexamezexuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceac70a931---92399253994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93021886997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeb4e219381f20b17b708efea32ac6d7/gajodasupezubezumami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/16706904114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210821_1202C473BF325753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723042d106b---nivowapatela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthikhoacaocap.vn/upload/files/soxoviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/zorinirebivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/tafasuvobozebitasapirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/17183644879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accfebdbe32---sawuletavosizogubaxere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/42256296752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seitonsolutions.com/ci/files/bapigazetekanoxosisigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skg8t9hto91npp27fmga8bk9e1/25143799290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ccc4bd63ffcfaf0a7763270ff4ec167/89905940574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/loxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/jekuradebowiwuwezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfae21a56a3---22569937369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/muvemuminimazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2n8pq9me5hp20sigheugiqlq5/45432083995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c0d99ce3a787bfa3282a475daad94b/42822692361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytokin.ca/upload/editor/file/47744803617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/18678888757.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_off0000c0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C6 20456 bytes
SHA-256: 59f8bf2a5cdd3ffedfee7e07c216dfbb50097cd935e1d77370ff90a743970eb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE3 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 96e3f600cc97f2b7a8316dcae502c37406eded2285bf0813e5a143eaa88c1d14