Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3c7b8587d16dc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 20:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2b0f5aa35b3716627595ec5ec197a1f6 SHA-1: 3b08f81771fa046fd3cee58c4aff8a40d87f17c6 SHA-256: 2f3c7b8587d16dc55ab1abdf9794b6f607c88b68228923b998927ac958c7ff72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URLs suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://zulapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58532787042.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/gamaseremulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/niwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072306365a0d---jonejiwexageju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a764e83eb2---38674714390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/35054418687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac17791fdd2---97311723367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d20d87c1aa---vonufimirazabebakorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/kexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e2c22c6c9---45541586997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/33559709397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c92laj2sn8g0sj6s365ngl5uc2/88828990775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/sejusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41305592912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/65609056381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/nufodupupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21010902788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1450e84cd4---miwexugomejuzexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd2ec3341a9187d25524c3d7f6f3a29e/48118035544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6ad50e1c5---55471687036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e587db479135e5c2441a1124b066e4/mokovexexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40c1aca541a972bbc30023c8ef07904/magikezejikorefofowevefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/kujowusafalukifusosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/20052513131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tendons+and+ligamentsPDF 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_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 161d2f4ca48bc82087116d73114634cf391363e06d43c37f5eb10954074cbb7e
font_01_sfnt_off00010357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10357 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B69 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 59ec08c307c8249541334c13eff07e8e7ee74fc790d9fac599786c517aa7b0b8