Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2b8bf0acf8f89a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:27:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 46fe29e44915d77b279fe4ba16447a44 SHA-1: 3d9494aba571633fe0d63b0f489e5a7576842bca SHA-256: 2f2b8bf0acf8f89a2ff67eff96499be830259fe174fbca54a1b2ca6d2bdc2227
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm structure, identified by heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM, strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect the user, while the link farm points to various external resources, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketusarujepigobijiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3abesc5gh3tncj47jqrddsl348/xiwaposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flying-vikings.net/UserFiles/file/86869910870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761fc61be89---memej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__611FD88DC6CE2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_3EA33CDBD47DCE01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/82541593469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/nawepatuxuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/bolelomesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610805f0f000a---9868046446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/benudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemisoduwetosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/75608472687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ec9ab3a6c49e9ee93d87a1c973cd80/7510168906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/saguxigibizesemewabomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paynechapelduquesne.org/clients/9/9b/9b910c66cef3ae2d1bb1fd5804160a19/File/38342706617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/92347942219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/gepewunolomajegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/42912446887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb15ecc7d6---fukuzofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesidoxuwapadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/2194088552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945b7ba12ef---4665970113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210724030002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/93043829764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107f29da04ca---64338474225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=hans+jonas+gnostic+religion+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_off000175eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175EB 20128 bytes
SHA-256: fd4741958913e8435d21c619695c45d2121f959c7205952de22f27e0a37b2245
font_01_sfnt_off0001a9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9A3 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 65c8d2b29f922dcfd1d152da1825ae3f9107e15bd6c48bedf7cde89da8b2bead
font_02_sfnt_off0001c2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C2C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1