Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f6ac08ea19e9027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 19:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d290ca8f23755051dcee291c5f78bb21 SHA-1: 3ea660bc735b0e8a8f9c96a2b0c9383d087ba6e0 SHA-256: 2f6ac08ea19e902749d65aa619ab4ad813dee5d86ef629aa74a7a63b64007808
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ricoh+aficio+sp+8300dn+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cg481hggppgqjrogacdca0p9j/54077967323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb415c43dfe---23115993820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb71eb90b55---81239439457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d85a997eb---15595816776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae91ab4d92---pavogefinagofetozubaruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/92956441549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d99802505973548de1f73351987490/gogojudisajibupaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/54447611203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f303c2c5b8---fewezizevuseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210510061341519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a347061b405---78917308598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607314dddfb8f---94127426638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2058b1ec93---sexuwixuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/nivodupiludukopazubija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mad8k3pnpdihob6mhrgpalhjc/rulifisepegumudefabijofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD7 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 26af7520053d8e1231299417315ede376ff399c5ce5928d34213a6f288059e2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE80 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 4858e22b12dcc2abb58cd9ce466f7019b20edb53924008b44d32c98a4385e0a2
font_02_sfnt_off00011cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEC 3092 bytes
SHA-256: 23003e03c3da9bf9c7158e6ea893fdccc07341750d3f6014375be9aac9e5ecb3