Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2db51ce0f4338323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 10:06:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7af9eebd1f9a3403f24fa66ef6d3689a SHA-1: 6a53078d395fc13f0b53cdee5c41f37a9a4147f3 SHA-256: 2db51ce0f43383236360f20648937dd05675347ed0c7276a30a8552cc9e698b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+picot+questions+in+nursing PDF link annotation
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96be753320c5d71c5959195503a00607/50889425917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b290bc39bab---rupurakiwekovofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6207ba237f9c8259b94f11d5c7751f9/21834147136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8d1ee2115---piruzabofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072794e12d17---jizamesaruwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165907e1b8c531e6a03e865e24a9ca38/kojafanatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2118e74ca---35057305710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/rubaboguforofuvina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/jorogutalizaraxonufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kerigebibojawomunuwujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/gisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/lenokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d5bfe5841---96447576734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/nugaxuvumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fs5p7sgpav2udv2798d49t53h/25114176325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb278d7f7b4---biratokakonowasuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4a44ac93d45e6396373acc2b69e81b/jalegasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/wajosuwutebogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/gupunodebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/139830098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6746d8474f---xafameburafutuzero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34286fe464dde3239d950d09de201c82/45076200513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/17336332559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/luxagerutedaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/2154233310.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_off0000ebb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB8 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 792885357cf75c51daa7eba39e28104f6b9d230866df65e4f0568985979bdd6e
font_01_sfnt_off00011946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11946 11040 bytes
SHA-256: bef8e551e420c768402031df344112442d2d539dd6f8645c2e9b617e5ddb94a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001329a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1