Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2f21559cc18d222…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 20:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 5698c61f11c96125b0d2ec0ac51e9186 SHA-1: d02cf6e0162236ee8e44b7a719e1d05ca6b53833 SHA-256: b2f21559cc18d222db3bb44fbf978e82d9620ba3c5c863a4809bb53f0e9d5ebe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'good news full movie online', likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=good+news+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/72833990443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/pizokukepirujimujozixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gks1n44sum0ujjo2g32bgeun0c/23840421149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dc83b598b---polopawewelebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ljsifqm1cupbn8pvch1d2c6h/71520625291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d097a41ff49e3c8736518243313f535e/74618259385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855f2855915---pijukoxetewibegedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/nalevepumeniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/51001730257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab80d5d7f1c---34781326831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/xonozovofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa03le6ccdouuqbl97mpum525/10425948800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/gegujoxikorogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958b7b4cc89---fubosusinama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3667a8c572f2e6c07d787920ff11eb/68874968867.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_off0000ca9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9E 4928 bytes
SHA-256: e3d43eb536039bf4dbe733d29dd61aaa5b0472720ac7684297a6de2248741a52
font_01_sfnt_off0000db75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB75 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 5a63e5ae7e1d3c286c34a3bb0ce2d3568a38ad732751bc0e91a33041be6e1af2