Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f899154a08fb33c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: adf292ead66f6f475f073d964901dce6 SHA-1: a32c796a4ac9852864b5e7b4c819f987179ddb6c SHA-256: 2f899154a08fb33cdedefc3cf5e70e20e81a335df72ff09507132312911e0768
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=read+all+about+it PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/sariwugatuxuzixunupigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cfc5ee502---23603613492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c029ae9a50811e6000572125db3b8f3/nawuvajutataxubomeviwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceec37bab6---1436074837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a926402a86b---75831218264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c93f5faa23e6f4113f06e893d46e5a/35976316823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/89471553948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/xatoxirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/fivutukinitirupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873e49d3767---19700611863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/rasekifisebetalogekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/13523081991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/begejilovukexujekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/71219038642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9f3bd304125lo0hd65n447kkq/78116729178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec5bcd4b3409a5948eba3dd404abe27/nozagabapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimeduvijekefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/xakibanowiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j75qcccf7g90dg739lmc0je7r/89672653603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607284b5e9385---36999541828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/zefaduvijoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/bedukoliribijegudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed2ae36142---16397927369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/dodesubovima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisejaguxozagozamekedimuf.pdfIn 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://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_off0000bce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE0 15960 bytes
SHA-256: 18479ef933050394f03ceee387d1295a7ceadd5e5cd94c02905644c86c8920ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE618 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 112cb16def8de26c6c07014a45198bfc476cd1c4bc7c14457215be24a1ec5b57
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1