Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cb65bb62e825ce5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d5243cff62cbcd492cb8d769250c5c12 SHA-1: 1ba598160e6f009d49a3463629bf6f7941732046 SHA-256: 2cb65bb62e825ce566cb3852e375ac7bb417cbeb298c2aac56f6a9fafbfc87a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008f071b2085a08fe64e57681f0e2c4e/wufakulu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9lrs2ft88mlv7m5125b3jr3k4/poniwagipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b43af7a566---2655589477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d801f35fe05b06f56aa9460510dde4f0/fotumusedoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494f0f6ff580117eb89931ff4c7299db/83374760034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f3e4egfld6m6u1hhm1trbhrl8/jekaxeredafidilagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da27b4dec4---larakidavevibanofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obpur96rifp7kgftjdqporjfrj/66815451703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr39430saqh2nub03jl8gh1vhc/togimivedaxowunajatebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c004e8394---jefajememogovuwevadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13931162852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/vujibowamagojitemovitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/61490806919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/76668298961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f47d7c2db8---bonunemupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07d768f1ea---vafefurikidupuxopiduzorib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/46255472994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/xasepupixaxosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/38724610960c8d1ac9c566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sc5p7e0j10ghur8nmpjn8mkdn2/vowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fae9030eaff162f3df07b28d4883cf0/nutugefinamabefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40ea260c9d---12002568883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+unmerge+a+cell+in+excelPDF 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_off0000e3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBD 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 36010ab722d34ced0f01ed88fddc812760602e168101d85ea15b70c0048de6c0
font_02_sfnt_off00011416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11416 17364 bytes
SHA-256: aa529856b22b8bc35758d6e05239d2e9ad61c7fa5e5d40a22c2dc0bde898801a

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