Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2f2429684d66d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:04:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 208616bdb2fbdff3313f5ae6ff17a010 SHA-1: 1a6d0b083cf67d40d1d569a853e5c6cf970589be SHA-256: b2f2429684d66d26640c93783de86783d6b552a2f9d3f5cffdc9c9ba830db3ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+the+storm+movie+2019+cast PDF link annotation
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/xubipilevujifimaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/20078525467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13077122206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///22221104350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.muki001.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94877507046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patajonezotasafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7unijfsbd1vmckvcbhpknisu64/wesuvowafovumenafezovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144179803ebb---60964414428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/pusawexosuwiratotogunegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/rewabiguxilosofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/24355933281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zokadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/64996221778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/lawabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2d2fbd234---74577389924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/97484062502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/dixevisazisuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuchem.com/upload/files/97227395122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1914264031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/53667368339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/3728112266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/fomejuzuvegexezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefivamudisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/ruruvozobozelevefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/ruxawozedebemijeromuzise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/vusujirivevawebimifevuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/namewe.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_off00014122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14122 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15934 19608 bytes
SHA-256: 1c347727fa0e3decd5ba84c1512b9ae4a89a55ee7bfbdba8922bb2124367a4cc
font_02_sfnt_off00018c43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C43 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 829e9c0eb7fdc1bc8b713f245f95dc4d54f63054f03e4adeb1fa396d5f1e3083