Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2882f3e58efb411…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 21:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1ea758288b7ca2a075eb8dffc0a6d3e2 SHA-1: eab76f953f5df6ef1e08d4406c7311982c525d68 SHA-256: b2882f3e58efb411263db818c04d36b802d6c609cf44f6e1a73c7a499fe3ee15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, identified by heuristics such as 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common lure.

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://maturana.cl/upload/file/xorevojof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210726123336_zltv8t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f619bpjqmr3mnh214bosq7c9t/31692339420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/15774396436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jcckahq3l08ecut4o7fojkem3/gonakapuxawefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/63362918083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3eab1d281---18190556473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12816067533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/nuleriraxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e69eda579---levedavudixanupapaxefoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bf1a0c334---juvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c6e10c73347416a3a5e24ac72c851fe/xowobojaxusovowegono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be877fb92cb6dc505cdf016864012a2f/jutozutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/pogutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sbg1gm0kiusnsod4kn43nth52/737743099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///pikekipevoredig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee417a2b4dd---25735701312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/36305796869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0098b18222f6db82a62155c39df9bb1/xunomosofiniborudonetefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loralijavokero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxixagadogemelelenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/babonedogemapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg75m2rd6dmkgjgglbd4k3jrgh/kozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/tubevajikowejuroxifisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7aeedc5f5b---dagebazuludab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/vusaralozijenabivekomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=comprehension+passages+with+questions+and+answers+for+class+8PDF 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_off00010865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10865 11636 bytes
SHA-256: bf91e46524a771b5f69df7b625206ce10fb61051bab28f6a9ca15818f7484618
font_01_sfnt_off00012379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8B 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 51bf2021697e271d4a0c58d6084b2c4b749c9aac0d91c37eef7ec52064f9803e