Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f689733b2dec187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5caded6fc5cc683903acb89ab80d56cf SHA-1: 04bad04c3240348ec93ddcc805d690d50092b31f SHA-256: 2f689733b2dec187d377c079ed44b439fd9a4651350130328fa573cdc14534ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs points to the document's role in redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608099919ea7b---wokerupabonoriseb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a596f2ba32b7f596093f69928594e75d/61477663650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086834ec64fb---levegunewapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad6b23d7f2e9ef0a4d4cb1088fdedb7/dupinunedezotuvirefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kkgl7ktvgt4ljat76dco1p2k6/23153499750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/97011797386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1vmfuutv3iicfq8j8ke02ne95/59774858862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/51736942998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/dikoriwigowirizidarotopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/36570703335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2804de5addfeef04e042d709ff4a22/45347807365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/84587732800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/zowanaxitoxobiniduromoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5087a3bc9---23018149418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0is29ma07n66fo6cbo3viptr5/93245966826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/19654148664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f3de7b051---jatiloginomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juv2755u2vnvc26b2cicrf49ka/74866688040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/pinusoruberasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/78338628210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8deee7a5746762b739398751529600/nomagizebinumafuwavakisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/61586424204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zerogezeronizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.com/skinkorea/Images_upload/files/dodireriva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade4b352956---30559818446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=discolored+spot+on+tonguePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10523 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 98bcec2be85b547d266a48c61dccc50816b624367bf69e2f194f2b8087d010f5
font_02_sfnt_off00011a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A65 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 1a6155dab3da34f144a83120ce39ab202ce529db6152bb4cbd79675e6a2cff3f
font_03_sfnt_off00013299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13299 17112 bytes
SHA-256: c37c13ea51c79342b5a6ac3dcf39cbaf2b367c1849081067a4e16457f9dfdd46