Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fafd5238914b5b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 22:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ffd87329760891e56c01e12642253f67 SHA-1: 1ee73d2eb95009519a36d618d39fc5d2a7261917 SHA-256: 2fafd5238914b5b6de6e32d396ecd2b0dd88df31da1792db65b6175d8a618bfe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy to deliver a payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/70910264222.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dc0453c1c6f1be87186e2e44070fbb/pekareguwefari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phuo7uhi1pi0f715u88bsdvm7i/55592627283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/diserunefuxirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b39c0df16---xabenulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/91434975762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64eba3c499---likiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/13845750741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/zabobafoxoxesumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/jaruneroxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/74735434053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/62704996740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9imp1mmsnbir6vhq45jokcilvd/gekefowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/313ce295cc7c26f3b00935efc440f636/67741098509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1v9sldmo2q2ldtnr4aje2snah/43658692563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610074ac6a9a3---lagomabegezomeseveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/jubikozifiwajedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c3aa1a66f5afd52b11ef231b50edf7/nabebexosojurobawerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/meretuzowabepomuwalakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/45904289008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/821890c8d7a7cc2d88420025e7facedd/33576786232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/16240829743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/lovifuboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/50561889709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+minecraft+launcher+fenix+por+megaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBB 18680 bytes
SHA-256: 1a41446055bdc24430b5be7de6cfb69effbe809ab2d3fea9a41ba087f40aecea
font_01_sfnt_off00010f47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F47 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 22c15aeb9ee25add6e7962a0946162707aeccefe0543ace22b8fd19e6d959880
font_02_sfnt_off00012921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12921 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14132 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 0c133022d1e9883d2ff7035cf84f1fa0be9cfa0d671266bc5a940283bc0f9855