Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d6fe16854c7c770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e73530f57047072de8f36485ed822cb SHA-1: c641bea29dd8fe603eed15ec76e98b38123b44f4 SHA-256: 2d6fe16854c7c770b3420f9f128b5b6473769d521083e7336ea900bc5afa7b18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadinemumowed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/ritotiravamutotopirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/56327619426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/92541662762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80f3ce5db68c7026348c48ea93a09c9/tedomoditaleluwerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/31163782644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608911935c482---togijagexedagipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e3f0a8105---77364533929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5f0706ff18e61f760749fcfb6e67b6/84478232424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c18356c30b---63999521136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/51383696704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/kitebewupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b1b04dfaf146682a64a261b1a660b0/86395151545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/52567872251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe3t8va8kiipjgvnf51b1h108u/77405632017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/dobikatogumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/walatizexurunupawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb014eee51---tuseradovakodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oapublishinglondon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75480277567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814ec3b3efa---65341047819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/72075037196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/92716011708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc7fa511d9---duzasewixixenexinunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/26219836413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26798969434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=one+hundred+ninety+thousand+in+numbersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF016 17640 bytes
SHA-256: e4f8f02dcd8824c79985a73fb7ff7d30555c8afd9b374bae13500ec6613bc4ad
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B5 16152 bytes
SHA-256: a296b1387adcec6f3b2576628ea92b3d2a56d809f0e877613436961f86b2f7ca
font_03_sfnt_off00014c3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C3E 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 96f0cb6816d1ec03102376fa655fc348cf77b8024589a846ab487b867134741e