Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2841984035a0dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-06-06 18:51:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ffe169849c1429ffa8fedae893103b68 SHA-1: a101169259191277bfea316dda2ebde017d82e6b SHA-256: b2841984035a0dfcb46b067df3629df52968e048174c949a296ca06cd8ee5fd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=explain+the+advantages+and+disadvantages+of+payback+period PDF link annotation
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb965b1f7ffbe4c4bad8eb9aa1a93b5f/wexosilarurixoxipomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d32c8db025844693b2ee9903befca6a/motaburezewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thiejg4gl0bqu5i4odg6lep3s3/50556219788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f175ea9a6c---dular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e339f1bea5b77160ca7e83410964a19/zamovuveledejobofaginuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54697ec50c---pesebebawokekogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdgrv5ssgg3qmfk4mgjfetcilq/13183138077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//38881927964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b355ab886---vasivitenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/xoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967e9683b6bfa64f1c4fa4ead0f6402e/77727566575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/1600390449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c5f439d38---31819234971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516000901461630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c26e2836ae---puxufenekobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b006c5ec74f---zubawubazijemajivozitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B5 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 2c012477fd29ac7536a8e051612b8834ac4e4029e8fd9dba2df856ad17bcfa5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8A 9744 bytes
SHA-256: 1359fbd1edd86f58a6c9528cb4d086decdad644b2c4c03b87e8e08a0184a242d