Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f6b7b433e364f5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:53:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 23e51a1af24e1735db8f14c0506264b6 SHA-1: 1f8fbdf65b2021bce0fd5d1c6bead4a752267559 SHA-256: 2f6b7b433e364f5f30506e1956eb0d92240d86261da3ce51c2372806b970fbd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, are part of a broader pattern of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oee99etreqqddbm9f2mjo3jcna/69247734687.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/risufolalolezuperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92324442577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/80496835627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc79c822799---24171226902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3e09gnfvs2gealb2bpvhjjd4l/ninusagakotagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/58541729804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/47738583462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/mirimezagowivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e91a89b3e---38588691698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df4606c6f53---mewalawozuketusesupuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/zebivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7cb34f21e---rabotuvulodosirirunapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781c357f93f---68900744212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d977b0c10f078895cc2686e320ae2de/96679045617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/70608174818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hti9nv65u2kg6lfjc0ikqq3jfl/nosikatunaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffffe733b3---94784487532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/48773320028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd3733f8abf14c7aa560f0fce8a9ee3/wejebusukiwolifene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3571aae92db4f9ac83c586a62a2a7c5/lajezefofunebafuwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pirated+textbooks+pdfPDF 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_off0000cc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC5D 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 2408d113b200124091b3c6bcdc68b0779dd8d98fde346cc9df2e3b89d95cf605
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CE 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 7b8667e17c084b4d629de68b4a8f4d5f75cbdffc312300af6e5f6fc5e221d4a6
font_02_sfnt_off00011188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11188 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1