Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ed2b0b2f1fd9762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6bd92af228c9a213d454142ad1a39aa1 SHA-1: 3550229ee276cf19da1e71302752cc1e1d01278a SHA-256: 2ed2b0b2f1fd9762f16b6b21626c55b04ade11b68cba4e7cb7df8c620621f262
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious with high confidence. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=using+generating+functions+to+solve+recurrence+relations PDF link annotation
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/nubidorawijopidaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791288e78b5---81773738163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahhd59alros017qksnrijmjbvo/xiverowoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a07de5211---negodojenirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210603083802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/45660487902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kih6alo4la8503vh27qo3l9g3k/14789918528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/33992477385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr7p95bv88jv78uag9d0cdveo5/99592841649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542alsgq4kcf7jjtdoq4406uiv/nurokugekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ece740e1---88958854589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a45d3e16e---lepubolunaguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f8f779d3dcad0391f66033bf8cd409/bevujofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/nubivefetekimixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609256ec7e4fe---fanafenixukasovego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9496a7ff1---zesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843eb92efcd---welufujenitukuwugakoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ae1c57492---sukezukufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/juwazimexiwenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/voworijufunasakaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/buravotasumufeweniwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609899c8ed01b---52215781899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/jasusane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/xutipuzubonizoganodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/12043969464.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_off00010a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A82 18180 bytes
SHA-256: ec3d1d392a1a854d3bc62d4862e14f17989a0e3e8fe51430a1edee2e776b4f36
font_01_sfnt_off00013acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ACB 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 0dbb84010ddb5b51fd3fd3dc223ff0181348f83028e8a46003b2e83822c45624
font_02_sfnt_off0001537c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1537C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1