Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8b9c8f9ba0b883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:43:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2ab7dc080ab5682d63b11a9ccebd7c97 SHA-1: 62b0b5c49dfb4297c7343470aff6f72a118f9ffd SHA-256: 2f8b9c8f9ba0b8834a595d90d32a7c71c2f8776db38d8d267ebb8c20adb91e9f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this phishing-like attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/rejisawikekova.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59133312543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c74fb1d91---3760152747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a68ae587e3---56316293637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc23a844b3---45862217695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d473jtja24lre79trohp299s40/38143054838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99099023065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/64480357006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/lusudikezefegepisewovixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/jafuterifisasevivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfh019envg70bc7q478n6vfbe2/33929580916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o0lauo866eke5ch0669l5qn84/18715977749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drdhsjimabrs1r5jef7hs2ea72/wojuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/89031976683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/beronopepogezikeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16091f32504475---73164893929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/76511134080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743446d10f0---lapadijariwitafare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f2d47cf33---jubelefuledum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079487022883---rewuwagibufipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/43450561340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://room12shio4.com/contents//files/31417148696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayamalay.com/clients/874202/File/79152064168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bec537793---93287863400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+streetcar+named+desire+answersPDF 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_off0001156c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156C 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 0e0905defac5d7428256ef7f8ff637b36c70a2e22926c8333879758d4f5858bd
font_01_sfnt_off00012d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D21 19748 bytes
SHA-256: 07210c3c00328efa64bf01b8721e1eb38f3152aab04ea2882f62471bf119279a
font_02_sfnt_off00016136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16136 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1