Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2d830afe237a8e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: efc7101007fed5d19e5e09abe9eeed09 SHA-1: 990d1490ff01f6314bf97d1a7d0465ec495dd32a SHA-256: b2d830afe237a8e5b963458f51912fdbf51c160f075c45128c0dc43cc1e13fe8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=escape+room+apk+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://megatex-plast.ru/pub/file/14754565196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70042106651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/wogevoniwitujobajumudato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/mulixawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c3f6900d8---52313738957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/3467207356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/fevutugurevazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/befiteraxidikosenudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/patiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614166c1dd36d---novumazemubetegorabakoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/parobijomanurinuxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68878743411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arhive.np-sp.ru/img/file/jeraxametotulibibowina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/52301216994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89273475500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uequg2rups8l9u4v8j7dicrob0/vugupekerodibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnartourism.com/uploads/file/29429149325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3a0062aac---87687032841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613656559081d---liwogumesijevujuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044723a0dfb5527849bc337bddfe6719/fewofosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/berizivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/zebejalefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/85647026611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc8f80503a87a8c0884dca716a39638/bopalamuzijilejawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/27212108499.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_off0000e4dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DD 18500 bytes
SHA-256: dfe518e817dc0ad72cf671166cfc81297b0ef487b0783299146a7832ab628fc0
font_01_sfnt_off00011434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11434 10408 bytes
SHA-256: b52e078ac1d3d04fd48da1b1d2142fb796cc0e30a7354155220500912e46a65c
font_02_sfnt_off00012bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1