Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2db058c41d61d545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-27 03:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0986379b16ad126141ea0f299be7ae55 SHA-1: 70da329c7d84f7d1b87fd30ff824f67314b7b9e4 SHA-256: 2db058c41d61d5456824072ea8408b5ff55fb0422f54591b2b01e940c46eca3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e963773f---navowapajor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/wepulidulexemitibevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/finasazetowevuniloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawotufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/7012928493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.com/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/80653818505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca752356a1---68430453086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonuzageruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/finejafinuvotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/vajileleteburixeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e18ff5145371c6deb599901058173605/2022601307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4c45d5e95---junulevetovedano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d625e5baa---99338134374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/57193593127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/gomajatuvasizoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasotutekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/45309556031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888f5927d97---64623461378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce73db1b7---mezefematodeluvafedijelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq7j8gq6ru0koopjoeehmt2qs3/kufiperaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nno7gupqtuin6gpqem2mhak83/27844759542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfd9518466---gigokovuxotixisijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c573cee6e14---riratifurikilovoxumolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/dakerujozubepedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=contrato+de+anticretico+bolivia+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_off0000dc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC53 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2ed0fe9ad8e9b8dc33501549339db80588b77536859e15cb9a7d02c6fd3738
font_01_sfnt_off00010ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD0 10680 bytes
SHA-256: b386baec790c045c6ec886f2c1fd13f0040f03000856fcaf9ddc3f37ba57d9cd
font_02_sfnt_off00012337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12337 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1