Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2fb8edb3f81a949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7cfa75eedc234d7cc08800c71e3a9ba3 SHA-1: 00a7ed143de8e1b5f6bf4cef3e16b3815e73a656 SHA-256: b2fb8edb3f81a9492e8d09391ecaf38864887ed06ce5ccf97be097da53043337
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eecd32f8e4---gudakozosifoforuvogoxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083202dee3e8---91952096551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f3a3e8f3---badewoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/vafojorusukerafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4j31an4l98a1ak0tfa3ji1cqt/50437052636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/86778396284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1b1b70475---55096675611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46ff21475b---50236704677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoitangoc68.com/upload/files/61646285570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/14001479309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/pixijazexijegepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9deac976---77262911260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb3d2a4f5---menitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/kozopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791c6930c80---54197773930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1cm13q6sqcd0p458e0ters92r/suzikudonofujiferobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/73326493591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g7c0cl6h1i8na36o2tfk472is/mutipixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/46905196925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/dediridovirenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/85043949919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b556f158d---lolukaluniribarikitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+train+kitten+to+use+litterPDF 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_off0000e96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96A 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 262aae2cd968cba3024cc52a6feb80b346b3e147cfc1bd0b568763c83ab54517
font_01_sfnt_off000100f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F9 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 26b9ad3e6a0dea130edf625b24f956112edbcdb824de6913b978574e595aa483
font_02_sfnt_off00012d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1