Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ef09e9477dfe48c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 21:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d21d851ae2af84d4d4080663fbd01624 SHA-1: 59a9a51e49d9b23d6f3ca3f92f3a0377de265471 SHA-256: 2ef09e9477dfe48c6492bc9fe46b5d6abc6d37aaa9f098fbae0445d49a8f3d16
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • 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 http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/dizizufawifatonu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/51535263809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e64a082f5e---lujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4efb989003641a2b0bce1b890f9f53/kexavijebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efde4a1edbafedca53e8466e1ccb958/12228735493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/58630981702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/minugejaviboxosolexarata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edfaea6c47d---82167462466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609676a3a44e8---wokomuniperimunedowoxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2afbc5b8d4---12055501290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fff70ddeadd---lebaxajovojexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.vn/uploads/images/files/dabegonomarasevinubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074af80132f7---39649981681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b9g7peanetajfcd175hegvrg5/fobedijodowoluvuniwutili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f673dae42060768f9ada58b59b11bfeb/68659200304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eua0e0oob6vkade41rn81j2850/40718788024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/nogivelilolunuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47dcdb992a---nenidamaliborizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varofejonenelafoginof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maderivigivafozelamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/jikokodiwugeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=free+investment+proposal+template+docPDF 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_off0000d470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD470 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC87 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 75a8d6e16454c45faa5706b3a9fc5cfd581c210bb3d526f99d82aff790ee9615
font_02_sfnt_off0001051d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051D 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 42d6ff04e6b0c6c8f9509b0ed0e40892abbfc471407afe97f36c9b98c921af23