Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3b71f6ae2914f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 23:46:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba794244326d3836e1b330ff9c61b101 SHA-1: 66b4665f86d052f0ebe262691bf8e75e5f8fae31 SHA-256: 2f3b71f6ae2914f55a66e3ae09232856706c5859da01a7de0928922cc0bece8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+there PDF link annotation
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/wogobojuxesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/90794127837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/23430447683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560b8b64b231d9c17eff6d89d419d036/womikujolenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc4cb90236---39727595893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ac3667f6---74995033425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2159b5c76---xuganusodiduxutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8b3bd20cf---xudugisesezifilokekomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jt39n18mj4vklpj6nmobsf322/nitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46sei10k2lfe52vpjhopjbdu91/69097892818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/notevigosevotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927bf07420b---kikaxenazijezasopidona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb1b4a038d4e4ca286f207212dc201e9/75232368365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b35645f0c4---50996893105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/25350096308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/fubevegabifimajiden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/320f9fff09e1e422bf7f25e870d5a540/26585349852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.net/clients/81266/File/laxiwuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b307f6ab1be---wevezilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/63826600781.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_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 9880 bytes
SHA-256: 40bc30ce47f4cb203725168f00a51edebc957ea6ef4d56203edf8731d07104b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB9 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 70ff223cb6e767fbe55e722a21b68d1c8f33ef3f942ef94a03c8571245ada799
font_02_sfnt_off00012a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1