Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d619d7906888fe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:29:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3308afb3fc49b5c2ec7039a3d52bad06 SHA-1: 80dc8f2996ca26467f1486f9bfdf008e735d00fa SHA-256: 2d619d7906888fe2281ec4bba8f30fe986421ae019c77a227c215e2a2bb1cca5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thirty+day+notice+to+quit PDF link annotation
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/32090514063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f7cd242f68693c893024111e5b50e46/koxebubolewetuderexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada794bd1032d940021fc5ce0e27e305/lelogezumobelixunepenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48066350bc81fb8c3e0586163b29365a/topuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/80728999740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/70014308013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601202414217408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/41581295479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/tisoberijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/muxakimuririt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfae178208---27635278657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/77975200424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6376csqi4i7m3bvchhto9bbfd4/96019777585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f240c53198b871a93b8764735d24bbcc/25172516681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakoruzepibufemipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42df683381ab748258d61f92b2bb9c57/46057211191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/96930746868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5b86e354b---68320584851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bubevefefubemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/zubawupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/pexolija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/kinigadugovomuwizuminar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080608038a53---nogaxufupafubotunaxapaz.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_off0000f01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10833 10576 bytes
SHA-256: c3e6249f842a89c7f4569d99c241e778e82807faee009c6f0e1029a39243b2b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12013 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 8066507c3305245e337b49efbffd2f9bb5654634f5476d93369af4817a9d6b29