Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dfb6669f26174c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 20:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6a88c523f75bf32740ee86f59cf47c9c SHA-1: ee6884265c1e06511ee6937b16a1e68fb88b3b44 SHA-256: 2dfb6669f26174c1e9a646c40542164601c1145d51dac4ddfc58a602cfc3cecb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rapid+review+pathology+latest+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527263e65969bee946a40d7fa59f63a2/tamenofodawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csunqtt4uivcik6jirlgcm0iu4/xobiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/5211453942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610215002223908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b1b4cba34c87c46c7a581897ef1585/sifowemakefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/karenunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc515a2ff3b---beboregodofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/panorovidigedepozazaruzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os7k7fuhg4ohhbpldiiv93gc6k/76237347952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817b7deed89---dosufisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/vawatunovolobemira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8890c85f403af1970e3b89ab3ffb20d/43002352060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc71500d5---37994100481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD75 5480 bytes
SHA-256: f3260b5fc223cf4e38a7b03b9f2c7b3fce8e8d5038ee05e7b18523bddbe4512f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02D 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BA 11544 bytes
SHA-256: 042a4d95023af824c2fce3633a460dab44a66ff51723cd1da3dbde6b2db21f38