Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d76b2d092409d7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fb99f09b6c80df85a59137bf3e08ff96 SHA-1: 009e4a4416708345335aa240c0f825b71d9dc070 SHA-256: 2d76b2d092409d7e6f298617a28df67c59a3eb5d6f3f5716b49c4174456c523d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for redirecting users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/sijoforidodurezumopumopux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/29355567283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/7901824475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/6415831054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t8mo1qdkvoeqbth9nrfpcakme/sadewagotularex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/58824822906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121bdc7e9c08---5523815170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yves-segers.be/userfiles/files/dulotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9oart0c1qmrg87p54p6fnsb7ri/bapuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/66173414430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae38f72fec8---86062392695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/belebesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89795352782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/sutezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046d3f6aa02---nijizuxugakape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodixunugulubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b133fb624a---38574637871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca66484fbb---devapinotikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608566000b6f8---fatorewufexipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855c2de2558---48912598218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/musanibodukuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891e5700583---lekeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/wupiraxakurisesisetinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/25281214129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=verrugas+vulgares+pdfPDF 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_off0000d4af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AF 19460 bytes
SHA-256: bfdee4b12f6e5e35b687bad415db8eaae4ba7a221cf4be48ad9c05428f15e13e
font_01_sfnt_off000105bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BC 10396 bytes
SHA-256: de1b065b2770210eb80518b462811e8fb06f361c4c4c06b050e8129cd00576ac
font_02_sfnt_off00011d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1