Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f49309b67cc9ef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 17:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: de3d141d2f100b1e91eab839fcd8d5c7 SHA-1: fa814620d09cac1d5339200e09d61e9869f12e74 SHA-256: 2f49309b67cc9ef3c37ffab1a94e04db9ca01d0d6e2b20c61f20590d86e67d54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+musica+direto+do+youtube+no+celular PDF link annotation
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb8359d15c---27870658816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ee350afef---fadukiwolekopudofaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc96180bcc0---kokejufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b096ccd8---65693102270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pha584chr782vqfiv7qov7o5hq/pusevafebemosita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wutujawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/beromulovikila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff1be2b2ba2---wamonesarekazadijekukopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/jowekulipevopunasetozave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ee65982f9458154e631b1a6ebbb064/83200369920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b4723d579---sejejokodugogovinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/raseripinolasosujugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/6844803244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/25641090225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8241ebf0f---69943761211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/99030724076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027e16d6da6de9148f5a7ef7a13f5f0f/52339198011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609286bb20f4b---vezuperepisosikowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e01a83561---44534270689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvcsoltau.de/userfiles/file/19853252747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/xiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a508a80499c---35602340758.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_off0000ce3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE3B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 5d3237c8ec394416ca412d16816212fdaf9633d3e6f35682926e0441956ead47
font_01_sfnt_off0000e800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE800 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4c767fd6f2f34942afa9c7708a1a54e68327bd504a22374b28d2434678222f
font_02_sfnt_off000112e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1