Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f593f020fd4f563…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 04:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0d459ed5bd6d7654175f202f297f9fc2 SHA-1: 5d706c1693a9453fd183ff913ef0a51ca8399662 SHA-256: 2f593f020fd4f5631f812cda2423dcd1576ab91c432e8bc4da6f4c57d9f7617d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these URLs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=itzu+th13+war+base+link PDF link annotation
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840c8b71e1f---20425310732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a771adab0d---jazalorufawaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/jagire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/82499226712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/kuwabomepijevafarekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/femijesoxotipevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee4126e4f635488b693db5b7c703ccc/jawizogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aafdfp9ishdtg09cp1gl6ljluc/zuxawabasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989f782afaf---98744632326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fdaa1b40e---fuwifofemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/sulesudemamudaxorimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/bawivejokegubifeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/48586211047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a58f18fba16c369c4e70b40a833e55b/jidutelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68C 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 9b035aba214cf6c73d79484f9dd451759cac36860ab4158c938762517c970581
font_01_sfnt_off00010894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10894 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e4754a052e79728f5ac288e4f5a63496d027814a29e682bc872e4e80bfb1bfc5