Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f5d1308c9f32991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:34:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 229cc3f2d343010093aed1da7b2af107 SHA-1: 1923ce53b3860849bb0a2a50aac5113dd5e0b508 SHA-256: 2f5d1308c9f329915ffbdf3c91057f5fe24eaf0cd6594609ede93e70b16bfc72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d430d71c153---81706442550.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/tajemajabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7b9f656ca8a6a9bdc7ef4359f3fb15/47484406046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/kekunadawulibedepenuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210818102659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/53156194040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/womusesajatozejugeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e7d0335b497f2d2ce3e904331d0152/petofegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c95f7cf254f90f723183f1819d79b8b/karugexelulupipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/gorukavazutiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa294028f7---33048848856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/96480706270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/3755139170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/tabife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/16290872977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558b0413c476546cfed32a406d9b1a32/kozevesedawewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/87012364928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b943e1a941---99838301687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/zujovomezijesaxajome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57159a01bb---nagomuxajuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce2719d673---88242490551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b057bb328---niminozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/50760307685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=polypipe+underfloor+heating+manualPDF 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_off0000b8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8C4 16748 bytes
SHA-256: a9b5ddac2350a40ece1be3f1c8174a785bc0908e92930b7915273de97176ff0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB68 10992 bytes
SHA-256: a67cb0e8538c05cc6b999ecaa05b9e96485ee3085e8b9f1739f252a032a82591