Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8db9a4c9935358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 11:16:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 857b8b550d6eb61156cf8aae8b67f6cf SHA-1: cd1fdfd36d4fc2c46ece0574fb4d03cde7e0855a SHA-256: 2d8db9a4c9935358c62e97c3741774a1c7eb5776bbdf4560a8cb717eaff437aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'urgency/deadline' language, though low-signal on its own, supports the phishing or scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aprpk9k4q0vsb5fp5r63c27brp/diburamirosobilepimewex.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db3a778d57---13901877714.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5702261f49---95484531918.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b47cd404e---17381467799.pdf
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37478214022.pdf
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents//files/fepukutosuro.pdf
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/49502738284.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608518b61b749---suvinarodezolilipanise.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bac9d2a031---60304689610.pdf
    • https://istanbulbalbir.com/upload/ckfinder/files/19298453280.pdf
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/73593013032.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe09189db---niwawuwowobol.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92be527821---bepukewogenevep.pdf
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/23386699008.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c678b9880---kirowol.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739e64274c7---dezuwopu.pdf
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/pawifexibadupujefupiru.pdf
    • http://hopkim.vn/upload/files/84421112594.pdf
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/59510920436.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juepnknibhj8nbjhl8v7mgd317/37196060641.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0d3634dcf6681b500d38faa038d716/bokulukina.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73ea9045f4---7974474026.pdf
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b45d40942d---18228575020.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacf4c63a2c---mumuwanoteropefowunetelog.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=happy+birthday+message+for+brother+in+law
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f58c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010da3.bin
a08cf1aafad6f6d6249b37981fbb79c4365bebbbf2f6b898d537cb070b3f2cb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA3 11276 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001278a.bin
bccdc4f83a065027607fdb6864ad6b1481404e1aeabdbe0fdd95f6bbdf5b0e4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278A 17432 bytes