Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e55167425d8dc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0f3725f152ed2c0a45bbe9be1be574af SHA-1: 47930bc220742e22e38bf19d6f44045c743e3bc8 SHA-256: b2e55167425d8dc3b98a9ba013060620662c43114ea9df3c470abf664312309b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=level+112+word+connect PDF link annotation
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8167849982eb38a3d1b5c925169ecfad/juwajobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7645f28fc7828527b636b9d029f878d8/jojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e0ad306f2e71880ed1e1ceaa3d5c502/potebubibokuzaguwemiloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608601d3ca237---durixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b881a14b328---widunubirujekifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5tbps1q2shikpm2hmq92ntr62/80962555718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f9200e46abaa123bd0bebe11728558/26033631394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2338e8bfcc35129c5f1a86f7eb186a5/lufesabedasabasipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609740aee2309---nizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6ba2464190eb56411ba41726cf23f5/bezimajulofixegunomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8693f56f29f1a5ea5d4bea6f6d2a2c2/dilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_ACBBCB59EE0AD62B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn6dlqvapppultp65noshmrpk3/75213173257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i42vehkncfr1qu6h4kc66injov/12434415343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90ffa9556a---bedasupuzevidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95d269ea31---50562916251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/71574897519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf5785fffd---tobolovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/33454421705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076abe875cc3---jisoxelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/zalogede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpn3af7ed5niekmfjamg8jjnf1/18316927945.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF118 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 0cc96749df850d907354a027ea0c5548de71ad130f3afea48cf34696becba95e
font_01_sfnt_off00011ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F8 3712 bytes
SHA-256: 482a693c0bf9b01b3ba3f4eaedf0ef3ddc2993be8d6eac8cb3032637557987ce
font_03_sfnt_off00014375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14375 10220 bytes
SHA-256: eba0d90fa63bfced7a0221c9ff01ce8a82e8226a44fa34ccd0ae554eea846305