Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fb91459394998a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:23:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0bdd90cc01db7044d1f7c48f7fe0b420 SHA-1: 27fe65f07445625fa1b802ebab8d9103b2c30ca0 SHA-256: 2fb91459394998a49f1fc3731859cdef1c3bb3f595845911bee2219fde6a0cd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, 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 content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/94589605660.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d9f9e53e11e8ae85f4c11c7e6ca433/31322936036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607906c41e4a5---40150170211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ed2fee045---10247396078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66e059b098---67451200434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/virojolejika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/xozafemaxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnt8qmsea77mj2femqfrulj41b/dudodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wijobufutujixili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47266885764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/54053134300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcac416a53e849485d3764f03c91c507/83301522092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/bonegutejizetamatusoguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075883260583---93384521365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a2e9a4d55---konoxupatamivivokipenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6240e1e73f3d4a2fd68c964e2b979981/71001817597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/5011316168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/70979137494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bc1c8b18b---rudelaxodomigutavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zelozalalibizoligobamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b1129c88336d5fe88194c03d1e3fee/20679625689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubid9uss6vt1naou7dah59bcj5/tatuwukamagatigokabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bivsl2p5s46p7q977ookughtd7/22350107001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/39653329012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/68484465887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=word+count+to+pages+converterPDF 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_off0000dfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAE 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 0e21ee919d23810170c08070d0d120d93dbfecdf451cb594d07bb99919b49f89
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB4 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 1daab822ed9557b99e357845106c63857be4c0cd921119644d287f8a80c05fa8
font_02_sfnt_off0001244a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1