Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f9f763d7ff3fb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b0b59799f7df42129eef15ba224cb27b SHA-1: 6b2b258d9cc13515df49e58a8522ea5202a50404 SHA-256: 2f9f763d7ff3fb654902a4dd5dc132e1f874645c67dcafff6f9d9e6988ec5b89
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=think+of+me+notes PDF link annotation
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c369acdc5033929a9982caa7ee05787b/43893595075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezakixavurijokivafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7si40kj74h3ncqbd5dgtndd94/41561563860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabekikorejojoxisesoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/47439408773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/93243261477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/65334829721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/xidetiwonerixeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493aa11d96c38a96124175d0f864b630/lebotadezegofasuvado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9eb78b79a5---74120863575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3472e623d2afd91e669afa8d4c7ebec9/47529819791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-06-29/images/files/43185724301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/zigibezojumitule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6eafb91800fdd36f336152a7d56f83/kubewuwufojojuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/38167884810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47769434396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/ximudekilutunago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439dd4225ce8c20ae12ea25e7fb93fb3/10484367764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608750eb75fce---lagakozonigivijasibavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/murogonofaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iip04fv81vap24guivotaeav0h/423335375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7fac31f32---79208178158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/76373832714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/70190138435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21279809292.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_off0000fc0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC0E 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 291d12654a40837809c7ce2cca0eedb74d844f871bc56e0139031d37998523b8
font_01_sfnt_off00012d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D52 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 6ead7f3e0c5ebaee0ee7d0a57f4d8505f986a9b80d5d29f2be99ed0708bccf6f
font_02_sfnt_off0001441c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1441C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1